Bust Dollar Experts -- Opinions on Grade and Bolender Variety of 1799 Bust Dollar ??

Stuart

If you are a Bust Dollar expert or specialist, I'd appreciate your thoughts on the grade of the 1799 Bust Dollar (see attached .jpg below) and to perhaps attribute its Bolender variety. I am guessing that it's probably an AU-53 to AU-55, but I'd appreciate others' opinions. Thanks in advance for lending your assistance!

Stuart

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Bustman

I would like to help but I am getting red x's instead of pics.

Placid

Its the rare missing variety

Stuart

I have now uploaded low resolution .jpg images of the coin's obverse and reverse to my original post on this thread. Please take a look and let me know what you think.

I will be happy to e-mail higher resolution images (500 KBytes each) to you if you'll PM me with your e-mail address. Thanks for your assistance!

cardinal

I would say the coin has an AU-53 obverse and an AU-55 reverse. However, the coin also appears to have some significant rim damage, visible on both the obverse and reverse. If the rim actually is damaged, it might be a "no grade" at the grading services.

If the rim actually is not damaged, I would expect an AU-53 overall grade.

The coin also appears to be variety B-10, BB163, one of the most common varieties for 1799.

Bustman

I am still unable to view the obverse. I would agree with Cardinal on the reverse, and given his credentials, I am am certain his opinion on the obverse would be all you need.

Placid

Looks like a few heavy scratches accross the neck as well as the rim flat spots. The obverse picture has some blury pixels and it makes it hard to judge some sections of the coin.

Is it your coin? Are you thinking about buying it based on the pictures?

Some of the color in the hair area almost looks like copper.

ohbaby

I could only view the second image below:

Stuart

Hi Placid: Thanks for your reply to my post. (Thanks also to Cardinal and Bustman). In answer to your question, yes this is my coin. I purchased it raw in 1991, and am planning on keeping it, but was wondering if I should try to submit it to one of the grading services to have it certified.

The posted images are a bit blurry because I had to reduce the file size to fit them within the 50 KByte posting limit for this forum. I will be happy to e-mail higher resolution images (500 KBytes each) of the obverse & reverse of the coin to you and others if you will please PM me with your e-mail address.

The coin does have some rim dings as you noted from the photo. However, I feel that the coin actually looks alot better in person than on the photo. The surfaces show alot of mint luster, and the coin is very attractively concentrically toned from light brown in the center, to bluish brown on the periphery.

I think that the rim damage may hold down the grade to AU-53, while the coin otherwise appears to me to be a solid AU-55 and perhaps a shot AU-58.

Thanks again for your comments and your guidance. I really appreciate your advice!

Placid

If you are going to sell it on eBay or some place where the buyer has to rely on pictures yes get it certified.
1799 is probably the date most used on fakes for some reason and some are very,very good.
Getting it certified will remove any doubt and allow people to bid with cofidence.

Stuart

I've reloaded the obverse image of the 1799 Bust Dollar to my original post (below), if you'd like to refer to it and give me your opinion of the coin's grade.

I will be happy to e-mail higher resolution images (500 KBytes each) of the obverse & reverse of the coin to you if you will please PM me with your e-mail address. Thanks!!

Stuart

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billboat

I can't attribute it but it looks AU55+