United States
1 Dollar "Flowing Hair Dollar" · “Flowing Hair Dollar”
United States · 1794–1795 · Silver
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The Flowing Hair Dollar — the first dollar America ever made
In October 1794, a clerk at the Philadelphia Mint handed over 1,758 silver coins — the first dollars the United States ever struck. One of them may have sold, two centuries later, for more than ten million dollars.
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