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United States of America, Dollar, 1795, flowing hair type, Liberty’s hair ends in five prominent curls with a thin wisp of a faint additional curl below the third one from the top, rev. two leaves below each wing of the eagle (Bowers/Borckhardt 1; Bolender 1). Trifling surface marks visible on close inspection, otherwise extremely fine or better with attractive surfaces, the eagle well struck, very rare and one of the finest known (£10,000-12,000)

This classic example of Robert Scot’s flowing hair dollar is comparable with the Earle/Clapp/Eliasberg/Flannagan specimen, graded as MS-63 by NGC and sold by Bowers and Merena on 30 November 2001 as lot 4208 for $43,800 (£31,285); the commoner 1795 ‘three leaves’ dollar in Spink Auction 145, 12-14 July 2000, lot 1328, sold for £31,000 plus premium.

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