Auction: 1796 B-4 Bust Dollar, ANACS Net F-12 -- 54 MINUTES LEFT!!!

bhartman35

Hi, Everyone.

I have set up an auction for my 1796 B-4 Bust Dollar. The coin is graded by ANACS as a net F-12, cleaned. Here is the auction:

Auction Link

Thanks for looking!!

Brian

bhartman35

Hi, Everyone.

About 1 day left in this auction, so check it out!

One question for everyone:

I got a message from an Ebay user that the hair looks re-engraved. Does anyone here agree? It looks completely original to me (I mean, other than the cleaning).

Thanks again for looking!

lordmarcovan

Here are your pics.

Nice pics, BTW, and a very nice looking coin in my opinion, cleaned or not. If it was cleaned, then it is the sort of old cleaning that doesn't bother me at all.

Now, as to the hair possibly being re-engraved, I dunno. I can certainly see why that person thinks so- the lines seem awfully deep.
However, I have owned exactly zero small-eagle Bust dollars in my time (and only one heraldic eagle), so I am not qualified to say. One would think ANACS would've said something if it had been tooled?

bhartman35

Thanks for posting the pics.

I haven't seen enough of these to be able to tell conclusively whether something's up with the hair. However, PCGS and ANACS both looked at it, both caught the cleaning, and neither thought there was tooling on the hair.

The pedigree of the coin (It's been in my step-grandmother's hands for the past 60 years, and in her late husband's family before that) makes me believe that the cleaning is probably at least a hundred years old, ad probably more.

By the way, the auction is ending this hour, so anyone who wants in, now's your chance!!