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DRAPED BUST HALF DOLLARS (1796-1807)
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DRAPED BUST, SMALL EAGLE REVERSE HALF DOLLAR
(1796-1797) ...

Draped Bust/Heraldic Eagle Dollar, Photo courtesy Barry
Throughout the 1790s heads continued to roll off the guillotines of France as that country struggled to affirm the democratic principles it had first espoused in 1789.

Far more common are the Draped Bust, Heraldic Eagle reverse dimes of 1798 through 1807. But only the relatively high mintages of 1805 and 1807 makes this type of Draped Bust dime available to most collectors.

Draped Bust/Small Eagle Half Dollars
Draped Bust/Heraldic Eagle Half Dollars
Capped Bust Lettered Edge Half Dollars
Seated Liberty Half Dollar
Barber Half Dollar
Walking Liberty Half Dollar
Franklin Half Dollars
Flowing Hair Silver Dollars ...

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1796 Draped Bust Dollar
From the rare 1796 draped bust dollars there are six varieties.
A 1796 coin with small date and small Letters (Bolender One, Two and Three)
A 1796 coin with small date and large Letters (Bolender Four and Six) ...

Draped Bust/small eagle half dollars had been struck in minuscule quantities, with a total two-year mintage of fewer than 4,000 pieces. By contrast, more than 1.

The Draped Bust Dollars got the jump on half dollar, quarter, dime and half dime using the same Draped Bust portrait. It didn't make its debut on the other four coins until 1796. During the six years that Draped Bust dollars were struck over 1.

The Draped Bust comes in two basic varieties: with a button at the intersections of the toga folds and another variety without a button.

Hadrian AE Sestertius. Draped bust right / RESTITVTOR HISPANIAE, Emperor standing left, raising the kneeling figure of Hispania holding branch, rabbit between, SC in ex.
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Draped Bust: design type used on many U.S. coins from 1795-1807.
dull: drab, usually referring to the lack of luster.
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Draped Bust - A coinage portrait on which clothing is indicated. The draping may be a filmy veil of classical style or a military jacket or just about anything else.
IGC - Independent Coin Grading Company.

Draped Bust - The design of Miss Liberty with a drape across her bust. This is attributed to Mint engraver Robert Scot, who presumably copied the design after a portrait by Gilbert Stuart.

Draped Bust The design attributed to Mint engraver Robert Scot that features Miss Liberty with a drape across her bust. Scot presumably copied the design after a portrait by Gilbert Stuart.

Draped Bust Cents
That old American coin with a flowing-hair girl may seem old-fashioned in an age of peekaboos and belly buttons showing--although Victorians could be just as ribald as Madonna used to be.

Capped Draped Bust Half Eagles, 1807-1812: A Collecting Guide
Tags: 1807-1812 half eagles, Capped Draped Bust half eagles, collecting by type, early gold, John Reich ...

Draped Bust Type, Small Eagle Reverse
1797 SILVER DOLLAR, DRAPED BUST TYPE, SMALL EAGLE, total of 7,776 minted, the smallest mintage of any year from 1795 to 1803.

Draped Bust half dollars with Small Eagle reverse, first minted in 1795, are readily available today as a type.

Draped Bust, Small Eagle 1796
Draped Bust, Heraldic Eagle 1804-1807
Capped Bust (Large) 1815-1828
Capped Bust (Small) 1831-1838
Seated Liberty (various subtypes) 1838-1891
Barber 1892-1916
Standing Liberty (Type 1) 1916-1917 ...

Draped bust of Anne left, first bust, broad bust, tie riband pointing outwards
ANNA·DEI· GRATIA·
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Draped Bust 1796-1807
Capped Bust 1809-1837
Seated Liberty 1837-1891
Barber 1892-1916
Mercury 1916-1945
Roosevelt 1946-1964 (was minted several years after 1964 with date frozen) ...

Draped bust of Poppaea, right. LI before (regnal year 10)
Reference:
Nero's second wife.

Draped Bust Half Cent - Business Strike
Classic Half Cent - Business Strike
Classic Half Cent - Proof
Braided Hair Half Cent - Business Strike
Braided Hair Half Cent - Proof ...

Draped bust right, hair waved, rising into crest on top above diadem, knotted in queue, falling down back of neck
128-136?
Wife of Hadrian ...

Draped Bust quarter eagles saw production in eight years between 1796 and 1807, totaling 19,487 coins, encompassing eleven recognized varieties. More rarities are in this short-lived series than common dates.

Draped bust of Washington facing right. Originally struck as a Proof with considerable mirrored finish remaining. Light gray, slightly darker on the highest points. The obverse die was engraved by George H. Lovett, most likely in the 1860s.

The Draped Bust quarter variety is hugely popular, with strong demand and values. The Capped Bust quarter variety is more easily obtainable with more moderate values. Both are very collectible and treasured.

Radiate Draped Bust Right
Later, the same radiant crown was used to distinguish the antoninianus (double denarius), the double aureus and the double sestertius.

Laureate draped bust, globe and scepter in left hand, mappa in right hand
Reverse Legend:
PROVIDENTIAE CAESS ...

Obv: [---]
Draped bust right.
Rev: [NIKOΠOΛI ΠPOC IC]
Dionysos standing front, pouring wine from a kantharos and holding thyrsus.
(?) ...

Synonymous With Draped Bust.
Twenty
Common term for double eagle or twenty-dollar gold coin.

Turban Head Synonymous With Draped Bust. Twenty Common term for double eagle or twenty-dollar gold coin. Twenty Lib Common name for Liberty Head double eagle or twenty-dollar gold coin.

In the December 14th, 1998 issue of Coin World the very rare Adams 1804 Draped Bust $1 demonstrates the following: "When the coin was sold in 1993 the coin was in a PCGS Proof 45 holder.

The use of both curaissed and draped busts, in combination with the Britannia reverse, carried into the following joint reign of William and Mary (1688-94).

Obv: diademed and draped bust right.
Rev: M-H (48 Nummi) Nike in long chiton with wreath and palm branch
SNG Cop. 39
The Kingdom of Bosporus was willed to Roman Protection in 63 BCE.

Collectors will often see the designations primarily assigned to the half cent series (Liberty Cap, Draped Bust, Classic Head, and Coronet); large cents (Flowing Hair, Liberty Cap, Draped Bust, Classic Head and Coronet); Indian Head and Lincoln cents; ...

60. Picture Severus Alexander (222-235) AR Denarius. Laurate draped bust right / Jupiter? standing holding scepter and thunderbolt? P M TR P III COS P P. Well-centered, slight graininess. A few obverse letters soft. F+. $35 REDUCED TO $25 SOLD ...

A.D. 270-275 (IMP) Aurelianus -Antoninianus / RIC 258 / IMP C D AVRELIANVS AVG / radiate, draped bust right / CONSERVATOR AVG / Aesculapius standing facing left, holding staff entwined with serpent, SERD in ex; / Serdica mint ...

GI5205* 2723 Phoenicia, Tyre: AE 18
$100.00
Obv. -- Draped bust of Tyche r.
Rev. Galley sailing l.
7.18 g
Sear GI5205v: BMC 326v nice VF ...

AR Drachm (2,48) . Diademed and draped bust of Menander right/Athena stg left, hdlg shield & preparing to hurl thunderbolt, Karosthi legend around, control mark to right. MACW-1771ff. Toned GVF. $140 [image] ...

As a member of the ANA staff and Board of Governors, Rochette was instrumental in the recovery of some of numismatics' greatest rarities, including an 1804 Draped Bust silver dollar belonging to Willis du Pont.

The Bank of England took steps to remedy this situation by issuing tokens of value three shillings and eighteenpence during 1811, and for the following years up until 1816. The initial design showed a draped bust of the king in Roman armour, ...

Lady Liberty started out with flowing hair, and then became a draped bust, then a capped bust. The eagle also underwent several makeovers. It began as a small eagle that many thought looked too much like a pigeon.

The reverse type is not a type that belongs with a female obverse, and that type was, of course, not issued by Mamaea.
IVLIA MA-MAEA AVG, diademed, draped bust right ...

bust The head and shoulders of the emblematic Liberty seen on many United States issues. See also Capped Bust, Draped Bust.

See also: Bust, Coin, Eagle, Mint, Reverse