Did you hear about the 1794 United States silver dollar that auctioned for more than $10 million in January 2013?
Now the most expensive coin ever sold, the 1794 Flowing Hair dollar was the first silver dollar ever officially minted in the United States. A coin that most collectors (including myself) would have loved to place a bid on, the specimen that sold for $10 million is considered by several consummate numismatists to have been among the first very few made, if not actually the first ever made.
It’s the allure that such a coin may have been touched by George Washington or our other Founding Fathers that is part of the reason people are drawn to old, rare U.S. coins like the 1794 silver dollar. Another thing that makes old coins like the 1794 dollar coin so sought after is that they physically embody the very essence of our country’s earliest times as a nation