Breen-1019, considered to be High Rarity-6.

With all due respect to the great rarities in the American colonial series, here is a coin which appears in the numismatic marketplace with less frequency than just about any of them.  

Struck by Baltimore silversmith Standish Barry, this is one of the rarest major colonial type coins and a piece missing from many advanced collections. 

This issue also bears the distinction of being the only coin in the Redbook with a day, month and year date:  July 4, 1790. 

We have only ever owned one other example of this type, the Eliasberg specimen about a decade ago.  This one is a little better struck than that piece, with totally original surfaces and rich coin-gray color.

At the time of this writing, PCGS has graded a grand total of three of these:  A VF, an XF45 long since removed from its slab and permanently impounded in the museum at Colonial Williamsburg, and this coin, the single highest graded at AU55.

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