Silver Dollars & Trade Dollars of the United States - A Complete Encyclopedia
Q. David Bowers
1795 Flowing Hair. BB-19.
Obv: Portrait II (Head of '95)
Rev: Eagle I, Wreath II (3 leaves) (B-19.)
• OBVERSE 5: Flowing hair in six prominent curls. The lowest curl is pierced and separated by the innermost point of star 1, and the curl is continued upwards to almost close its loop. Wide date, the 95 closer together than the other figures. The upper left star is 2 mm. distant from L in LIBERTY, and is farther from the L than in any other variety. A diagonal "bar," actually a small die scratch, slightly more than 1.5 mm. long appears raised in the left field close to inner point of 4th star, this bar extending diagonally northwest to southeast. The position of the bar distinguishes it from BB-27, which also has a bar, but close to the 5th star.
Obverse die used to strike 1795 BB-19 and BB-20.
• REVERSE F: See description under 1795 BB-18. Three leaves under each wing. 14 berries arranged 7x7.
Reverse die used to strike 1795 BB-18 and BB-19.
• AUCTION POPULATION SURVEY: None.
• COLLECTING NOTES: This variety, unknown to Bolender, is extremely rare. Perhaps, just two are known.
• NOTABLE SPECIMENS:
Stirling Specimen. • The 5th revised edition of the Bolender book, Krause Publications, 1988, p. 21, notes: "Specimen reported in the Frank Stirling Collection." The collection of the late Frank M. Stirling was dispersed during his lifetime, and this specimen of BB-19 now resides with an-other owner.
• POPULATION DISTRIBUTION:
Approximate population MS-65 or better: 0 (URS-0)
Approximate population MS-64: 0 (URS-0)
Approximate population MS-63: 0 (URS-0)
Approximate population MS-60 to 62: 0 (URS-0)
Approximate population AU-50 to 58: 0 (URS-0)
Approximate population VF-20 to EF-45: 0 (URS-0)
Approximate population G-4 to F-15: 0 (URS-0)
Approximate population for all grades combined: 1 or 2 (URS-1); more information is needed before the Population Distribution can be completed.
• CONDITION CENSUS: Unknown
1795 Flowing Hair. BB-20.
Obv: Portrait II (Head of '95)
Rev: Eagle I, Wreath I (2 leaves)
(B-2. H-2.)
• OBVERSE 5: See description under 1795 BB-19. Close date.
Obverse die used to strike 1795 BB-19 and BB-20.
• REVERSE: G: Two leaves under each wing. A leaf ends directly below center of first S in STATES and another leaf ends just under left corner of upright of E in STATES. The wreath is delicate, leaves small, berries large. 19 berries arranged nine left, 10 right. Paired berries opposite I in UNITED, opposite A in STATES, under leaf below 0 in OF, ·and opposite I in AMERICA, on both inside and outside of wreath. One of these large berries is below right corner of! in UNITED, another below left corner of I in AMERICA. This is one of just two 1795 reverses with two berries inside the branch hear the eagle's tail (the other die is that used to coin 1795. B-15 and BB-16). This reverse die bears a very close relationship with the reverse used to coin 1795 BB-15 and 20, and another die used to coin BB-23, and must have been prepared by the same person about the same time.
Reverse die used to strike 1795 BB-20, BB-21, and BB-24.
• DIE STATES:
Die State I: Perfect dies. Not lapped. May not exist.
Die State II: Obverse lapped, making stars (especially on the left side of the coin) somewhat thin and spidery, and separating end of lower curl from its matrix; in all specimens seen, the curl end is discontinuous to the night of the innermost point of star 1. On some specimens, the "bar" is hardly visible.
• AUCTION POPULATION SURVEY: Good: 1, Very Good: 10, Fine: 19, Very Fine: 13, Extremely
Fine: 6, About Uncirculated: 4, MS-60 or better: 5. Total: 58.