1794 BB-1 Die State I Flowing Hair Silver Dollar

Value of 1794 BB-1 Flowing Hair Silver $1 Coin

This Dollar has the catalog numbers: Bowers Borckardt-1, Bolender-1, or Haseltine-1

History: Dollars bearing the 1794 date were struck from a single pair of dies. Nearly all dollars are lightly struck at the lower left of the obverse and the reverse. Some few pieces display a well-balanced strike and are exceedingly rare.
Obverse: Flowing Hair design with six curls, the third curl weak on most specimens. First star close to 1 in date. Second star near first curl, but does not touch it. The head of Liberty in the 1794 dollar has a fuller cheek and more pronounced jaw line than does any of 1795. Blunt tip to neck point. No head on a 1795 dollar is exactly like this head.
Reverse: Eagle perched on a rock within a wreath; 21 leaves on each branch. The wreath has 19 berries, 10 on the left branch, 9 on the right. A leaf is joined to second T in STATES, and another almost touches the right corner of F in OF. “Lobster claw” leaf pair under second T of UNITED and first A of AMERICA. Eagle’s wing touches R in AMERICA. Ribbons below wreath thinner and much closer together, and branch ends thinner and straighter, than on any 1795 reverse. Ribbon around junction of the two wreath stems. Rock under eagle’s feet extends much farther to the left than on any 1795 die. This die was retired after the 1794-dated coinage and was not used in 1795.
Total Estimated Population: 135 to 150

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