Series: Flowing Hair Half Dollars 1794-1795
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#1 VF30 estimated grade
Robert P. Hilt II Collection, cherrypicked on 11/8/1976 at a coin show in Omaha, NE - Liberty USA Collection - Heritage 4/2015:5059, $705,000 |
The 1794 Overton 109 is unique in silver. The only known example was discovered by collector/researcher Robrt Hilt at a coin show in Omaha, Nebraska. Following Hilt's death in 1995, the collection went into limbo and the coin did not appear on the market until April 2015, when it sold in a Heritage auction for $705,000.
Copper versions of Overton 109 are known as Judd-17 (PCGS #12153). One example, in the National Numismatic Collection at the Smithsonian Institution, is a low-grade piece with scratches on the upper right and lower left obverse. The second example, in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, Austria, appears to be About Uncirculated with scattered stains.
Sources and/or recommended reading: "United States Pattern Coins, Ninth Edition" by J. Hewitt Judd, M.D.
www.uspatterns.com
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