1795 SILVER DOLLAR -
BOLENDER 10Variety equivalents: Bowers/Borckardt
22
Rarity: Extremely Rare
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Known examples:
"Uncirculated".
Ex - Numismatic Gallery, January 20, 1945, Lot 12, illustrated, sold for
$150 - Adolf Friedman - Numismatic Gallery's 1949 ANA Convention Sale,
August 1949, Lot 146 - Harold L. Bareford - Stack's sale of the Bareford
collection, October 22-23, 1981, Lot 404, illustrated - Jim Matthews -
Stack's "The 400 Sale", January 13-14, 1988, Lot 1166 -
"prominent New Jersey collector"
PCGS VF-35. Ex - Ira & Larry Goldberg Coin & Collectibles'
"The Fairchild Family Trust Collection Sale", May 28-30, 2001,
Lot 843, "B-10", illustrated, sold for $13,225.00
NGC VF-35. Ex -
purchased "over the counter" by J.J. Teaparty Rare Coins in
April 2000 - "east coast early dollar specialist's collection.
"VF-30". Ex
- Brooks (?) - Bowers & Merena, June 11-12, 1989, Lot 160 - Jim
Matthews
"Very Fine
20". Ex - New England Rare Coin Auctions, Inc.'s 1979 ANA
Auction, July 29-August 1, 1979, Lot 1027, not illustrated - Jules Reiver
"Fine to Very
Fine". Ex - 1952 ANA Convention sale, Lot 3099, illustrated,
sold for $59 - Mid-American Rare Coin Auctions, Inc.'s "San Diego
Sale", September 27-28, 1985, Lot 514 - H.W. "Woody"
Blevins? - Superior Galleries June 1988 sale, Lot 3592 - New Jersey
collector
NGC Fine-15. Ex - Bowers & Merena Galleries' "The Cabinet
of Lucien M. LaRiviere, Part III", May 21, 2001, Lot 2, "BB-22,
B-10, Head of '95, Two leaves", illustrated, sold for $4,830.00
"Fine-12".
Ex - cherry-picked by Jules Reiver in the 1970s - Jim Matthews - 1982
Heritage ANA Sale, unattributed
"Fine". Ex -
Guttag Brothers - Bolender's 183rd Auction Sale, February 23, 1952, Lot
12, illustrated, sold for $85 - K.P. Austin, sold privately through
Bolender - Alfred J. Ostheimer, sold in the 1970s - Superior Galleries -
unnamed collector - Superior Galleries' 1975 ANA Sale, Lot 805 - H. Roland
Willasch - Superior Galleries' sale of the Willasch collection, May 1990,
Lot 448 - W. David Perkins
"Very Good". Ex -
John W. Haseltine's "Haseltine Type Table Catalog Sale, November 1,
1881
Notes:
The "Tecumseh" specimen
(ex - Steve Ivy Numismatic Auctions, December 9-10, 1979, Lot 793) was a
1795 B-11, not a B-10!
Sources and/or
recommended reading:
"The 1795 B-10 Silver Dollar
- Much Rarer Than Thought" by W. David Perkins, John Reich Journal, July 2000, pages
12-21
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