1806 $5 Round Top 6, 7x6 Stars MS65 NGC. Breen-6448, BD-6, R.2

1806 $5 Round Top 6, 7x6 Stars MS65 NGC. Breen-6448, BD-6, R.2 (image 1/4)
1806 $5 Round Top 6, 7x6 Stars MS65 NGC. Breen-6448, BD-6, R.2 (image 2/4)
1806 $5 Round Top 6, 7x6 Stars MS65 NGC. Breen-6448, BD-6, R.2 (image 3/4)
1806 $5 Round Top 6, 7x6 Stars MS65 NGC. Breen-6448, BD-6, R.2 (image 4/4)
Pricing & History
1806 $5 Round Top 6, 7x6 Stars MS65 NGC. Breen-6448, BD-6, R.2. Bass-Dannreuther Obverse State d / Reverse State f. There are six die marriages of 1806-dated half eagles, but the BD-3 is differentiated from the other varieties in two important ways. The 6 in the date ends with a knob instead of a point, and the stars are arranged seven left and six right instead of the usual eight by five arrangement. The two main types -- Knobbed or Round Top 6 and Pointed Top 6 -- are Guide Book-listed varieties. It is worth noting that the five Pointed Top 6 varieties (BD-1 through BD-5) range from R.4 or very scarce to R.7, extremely rare, while the Round Top 6 is ranked as R.2, or fairly common. This is unsurprising, given the Guide Book mintages given for the two: 9,676 pieces for the Pointed Top 6 versus 54,417 for the Round Top 6. Even Bass-Dannreuther give the estimated Round Top 6 mintage as 35,000-50,000 coins. Harry W. Bass, Jr. owned six examples of the Round Top 6, in five different die states. Bass-Dannreuther further note that the 1806 Knobbed 6 is not only the most commonly seen 1806 variant, it is also the most frequently seen among all Draped Bust, Large Eagle five dollar coins. The large total survival, which Bass-Dannreuther estimate at 600-900 coins, makes this an ideal type coin due to the availability of a healthy coterie read more
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