1799/8 Draped Bust Silver Dollar. BB-143, B-2. Rarity-4. 13-Star Reverse. AU-58 (NGC).，This impressive and highly significant early dollar offers near-Mint quality for a scarce and conditionally challenging die pairing. Satiny surfaces retain considerable mint bloom and support a dusting of reddish-gold iridescence. The strike is expertly centered on both sides with uniformly bold detail throughout. Light high point rub as befits the assigned grade, and the appearance is very nice for an early dollar that saw light commercial use. BB Die State II.<p>Bowers-Borckardt 143 is the scarcest of the three overdate varieties of the 1799 Draped Bust silver dollar, all of which share the same obverse. In this marriage, one of two for the 13-Star Reverse <em>Guide Book</em> variety, this obverse is paired with a reverse that is always seen with a crack from the border through the curved portion of the letter D in UNITED. Q. David Bowers, <em>Encyclopedia of United States Silver Dollars 1794-1804</em> (2013), estimates that only 250 to 450 examples of BB-143 are extant in all grades, making this variety twice as scarce as BB-142 and nearly three times as scarce as BB-141. This variety is also the most conditionally challenging of the three 1799 overdates, the typical example grading no finer than VF. The present example is included in Bowers list of notable specimens for the variety, and it is solidly in the Condition Census. A find for advanced early dollar variety enthusiasts.，PCGS# 40066. NGC ID: 24X8.，，From Heritages sale of the Queller Family Collection of Silver Dollars, April 2008, lot 2043.
