A rare 1794 Silver Dollar is going up for sale and it is believed to be one of the first – if not the first– silver dollar struck by the US Mint.

A rare 1794 Silver Dollar is going up for sale and it is believed to be one of the first – if not the first– silver dollar struck by the US Mint.

ASBURY PARK, N.J. – A rare 1794 U.S. silver dollar, believed to be the first silver dollar minted by a newborn United States, is going up for sale by a New Jersey coin dealer.

Las Vegan Bruce Morelan kept his Flowing Hair Silver Dollar, one of the first 1,758 minted in the US, after no one placed his minimum bid, which often are what a seller paid for the coin.

WHAT: A 1794 silver dollar, the first dollar in the U.S., sold for $4,993,750 in the second session of a five sale sell-off of a renowned private collection. The coin was first owned by a British ...

The 1794 Flowing Hair Dollars were the very first U.S. silver dollars ever produced, according to the USA Coin Book. While Morelan's rare Flowing Hair Dollar is the major attraction, the auction ...

The 1794 silver dollar that was sold for $7.85 million by Laguna Beach rare coin collector Steven Contursi. Expand. By Deepa Bharath | Orange County Register. PUBLISHED: May 21, 2010 at 10:35 AM PDT.

1794 coin fetches $840K A prototype for the first silver dollar struck by the U.S. Mint in 1794 sold for $840,000 on Friday in an auction. (Emily Clements/Heritage Auctions via AP) ...

A rare 1794 American silver coin possibly touched by George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton was sold Thursday night by an Irvine auction house for a record-breaking $10 million.

A rare 1794 silver dollar believed to be one of the first – if not the first – to be struck by the US Mint is going up for sale. Dubbed the “Flowing Hair” dollar, the coin features a ...

A rare 1794 Silver Dollar is going up for sale and it is believed to be one of the first – if not the first– silver dollar struck by the US Mint.