1795 Capped Bust Right Eagle. BD-2, Taraszka-2. Rarity-4+. 13 Leaves. AU Details--Tooled (PCGS).，A rather appealing example of the historic first year Capped Bust Right eagle. The strike is well centered on both sides, this despite areas of incomplete denticulation on both the obverse and reverse. A concentration of adjustment marks (as made) in the center of the obverse has resulted in soft definition to much of Libertys hair as well as the eagles head, breast, legs and left wing on the reverse. The design elements toward the peripheries are generally bolder, and considerable satin luster to warmly patinated orange-gold surfaces further enhances this coins appearance. The PCGS qualifier concerns evidence of light smoothing in the fields, the reverse also microscopically rough in texture. The highest denomination authorized by the Act of April 2, 1792 was the ten-dollar gold eagle, so it must certainly have been cause for celebration when the Mint delivered the first examples of this impressive large size coin in 1795. The mintage for calendar year 1795 amounted to 5,583 pieces, although additional examples from 1795-dated dies were struck in 1796 (and possibly also 1797). In fact, the entire mintage for calendar year 1795 may have been achieved using just a single die pair, the one now known as BD-1, the most frequently encountered of the five known varieties of the issue. Bass-Dannreuther 2, offered here, is the other relatively obtainable variety of the 1795 eagle, but it is twice as scarce as BD-1 and, of course, all early U.S. Mint gold coin varieties are rare in an absolute sense. John W. Dannreuther (2006) estimates that only 90 to 110 examples of BD-2 are extant from a mintage of 1,500 to 2,332 pieces. This is a more affordable, yet still relatively attractive survivor that would do particularly well in a budget minded type set.，PCGS# 8551. NGC ID: 25ZT.，，From the Alexander Collection. Acquired from Stacks, 1946. Collector envelope with provenance notation included.
