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1795 Capped Bust Small Eagle ten-dollar gold piece, obverse and reverse with the 13-leaves palm branch — the Smithsonian's example of the same issue; the tracked BD-1 MS63-64 specimen is a different coin
National Numismatic Collection, Smithsonian Institution

1795 Capped Bust Eagle (First US $10 Gold)

Maker
U.S. Mint (Philadelphia)
Year
1795
Rank
22 of 100

1795 Capped Bust Eagle (First US $10 Gold)

1795 Capped Bust Eagle (First US $10 Gold) by U.S. Mint (Philadelphia) (1795) is ranked 22 in the FLOAT 100 for Coins. It sold for $264,500 on 22 September 2017. The first U.S. ten-dollar gold eagle and a first-year type prize of early American gold.

What is it, and why is it in the FLOAT 100?

The first U.S. ten-dollar gold eagle and a first-year type prize of early American gold.

$10 gold, Capped Bust Right, Small Eagle, 13 Leaves, BD-1, PCGS/NGC MS63-64

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Figure
$264,500
Kind
Realized at auction
Date
22 September 2017

Ira & Larry Goldberg Auctioneers, Sept 22-23 2017. NGC MS64, 13 Leaves, realized $264,500. The finest 9-Leaves variety realized $3.36M; Pogue II 13-Leaves brought $2,585,000.

This is a realized sale. Somebody paid it. Source.

How this is made

The figure
One reference price, taken from a named public source and shown with its own kind. FLOAT does not average it with anything or adjust it for time.
Realized or not
A realized price is a completed sale. A market asking price and a price-guide value are not sales, and are labeled as such wherever they appear.
Why no grade ladder
Most FLOAT 100 entries are individual objects. There is one of this, so there is no population and no spread across grades to show.
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