Coins dealer Bowers and Merena of Irvine, California, is offering a very valuable half Dollar specimen in its online stock.
This uncirculated Half Dollar from 1795 is one of the final coins to bear the Flowing Hair design, produced between 1794-95, similar to the design of the era's half dimes and silver dollars.
The coin shows Liberty as a woman with long flowing locks, while the coin's reverse depicts a scrawny-looking eagle within a wreath.
The Flowing Hair Half Dollar from 1975 was the first of many designs
for the coin (Click to enlarge)
Most of these coins were made from silver deposited at the US Mint Philadelphia, often donated by people who brought silver or silver foreign coins to the Mint to be melted down.
At the time, the US government had little money with which to purchase silver. Those who brought sliver to the mint were able to exchange it for their own shiny new silver coins.
Someone obviously decided to hold onto theirs and look after this example. It is graded MS62 - which translates as "average, uncirculated" - and is priced $57,500
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