1799/8 $1 Draped Bust Silver Dollar, 13 Reverse Stars BB-142 PCGS VF35

Here’s a great coin for the specialist in Draped Bust dollars: the 13 Reverse Stars BB-142. Only 25 examples of this variety were graded by PCGS. Of those, there are 5 in VF35 with 13 finer.

Writes David Bowers, “1799/8 BB-142 is in the middle, rarity-wise, of the three overdate varieties of this year. I estimate that 350 to 600 are known today of this variety.” The obverse die is, writes Bowers, “used to strike BB-141 (1st use), BB-142 (2nd use), and BB-143 (relapped; 3rd use).”

The finest known 1799/8 $1 Draped Bust 13 Reverse Stars BB-142 graded MS62+ by PCGS. Photo: PCGS Coinfacts.

Bowers describes the reverse of this popular Draped Bust dollar variety:

13 stars above eagle. Leaf points to center of I in AMERICA. Star touches point of lower part of eagle's beak; ray points to the left outside of the U in PLURIBUS; U is usually weakly struck. Far right edge of A is over junction of clouds 3 and 4. First A in AMERICA touches 3rd feather, and rests on fourth. Die cracked and scaled between R and I in AMERICA, above same I, and above right part of first T in STATES. Slight die crack sometimes. shows through bottom. of ES up to top of 0, another through lower part of OF.