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1794 Flowing Hair Silver Dollar, Specimen-66

The finest-known 1794 Flowing Hair dollar, among the first silver dollars struck by the US Mint, sold in 2013 for $10,016,875.

Date: 1794
Catalogue: 1794 Flowing Hair dollar

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Record

The United States Mint delivered 1,758 Flowing Hair dollars on 15 October 1794, most of them poorly struck on a press too small for the coin. This example, among the earliest struck and prepared with special care, is graded Specimen-66 by the Professional Coin Grading Service. Steven Contursi owned it from 2003 until 2010, when it sold for $7.85 million to the Cardinal Collection Educational Foundation. Stack's Bowers Galleries sold it at auction in January 2013 for $10,016,875, then the highest price paid for any coin.

Culture: American
Medium: Silver
Origin: Philadelphia, United States

In the Tapestry

Made by · 1794: United States Mint A
Associated with · 2013: Stack's Bowers Galleries Amedium confidence
Associated with: Professional Coin Grading Service Amedium confidence

Provenance and history

1794
Struck at the United States MintA
Among 1,758 dollars delivered on 15 October 1794.
2010
Sold to the Cardinal Collection Educational Foundation for $7.85 millionA
From Steven Contursi, its owner since 2003.
January 2013
Sold by Stack's Bowers Galleries for $10,016,875A

Sources

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Wikipedia, 'Flowing Hair dollar'
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