1795 Silver Dollar - 1795 $1 Flowing Hair, 2 Leaves, BB-13, PCGS F15. This Flowing Hair, Two Leaves variety 1795 silver dollar is a full Fine. The ends of Libertys hair strands are visible with some detail, and the top of her hair is well outlined. The surfaces are extremely clean for the grade with few abrasion marks or other distractions. The image is well centered, and there are no visible adjustment marks. The coin is a mixture of light gray, gun metal gray, and tan with the latter at the periphery. The presence of these colors shows the coins originality.

The BB-13 is a Two Leaves reverse variety. The obverse shows the third hair curl touching the fourth. The lowest curl touches two points of Star 1, which ends at the stars point. Star 15 is mostly under the bust and nearly touches it. The date is close with repunching at the top of the 5 and 7. The I in LIBERTY is closer to the L than to the B. The L is slightly lower than the B. The reverse shows two leaves under each wing. There are 17 berries, nine to the left and eight to the right. One berry is on the outside of the wreath directly between the S and T of STATES. This is the only variety reverse on which this berry is centered. The reverse die was also used to strike BB-14.

Chief Engraver Robert Scot designed the Flowing Hair Dollar. It was issued from 1794 to 1795. It showed a portrait of Liberty facing right with her hair loosely tied behind her head. This feature evolved from the Flowing Hair Liberty portrait that was featured on Augustin Dupres Libertas Americana medal of 1783. Over time Liberty was turned to the right and was shown without the liberty pole and cap. However, the basic idea of Libertys hair free flowing is similar to the earlier concept. Above her head is the word LIBERTY, and the date is below. There are fifteen stars in accord with the number of states that made up the Union in 1794, eight to the left and seven to the right. The reverse shows a perched eagle with wings spread looking to the right. A wreath tied with a bow encircles the eagle. The legend UNITED STATES OF AMERICA is in an arc around the eagle. Except for its edge lettering, the coin has no denomination-- something that might appear as a sign of ineptitude on the part of early Mint employees to someone familiar with United States coinage of the 21st century. The omission was intentional, however, since United States coinage was new to the world market of the 18th century and the term Dollar would have been unfamiliar to merchants of the day. Like European coinage of the time, silver and gold pieces were valued by their weight and fineness so the denomination was largely irrelevant.

Scot was born in 1744 in Edinburgh, Scotland or England. (Documentary evidence is lacking as to where he was born.)  He was trained as a watchmaker in England and learned engraving afterwards. He moved to the United States in 1777, where he worked as an engraver of plates, bills of exchange, and office scales. During the Revolution, he was an engraver of paper money. In 1780 he was made the State Engraver of Virginia. He moved to Philadelphia the next year. He was appointed Chief Engraver of the United States Mint on November 23, 1793 by David Rittenhouse, Mint Director. Scots ability to make dies was limited, and in his advanced years he had failing eyesight. His work was somewhat less than that done in Europe at the time, and Scot was criticized for its poor quality. He was responsible for designs of most of Americas first coins.

The early Mint in Philadelphia had many challenges. The designers, engravers, and press operators were men who had worked in other fields. They struggled to learn their new trade. Production was sporadic. For the new Mint to coin each of the mandated denominations, it took four years. Foreign coinage continued to circulate along with American coins for many years.

In its population report, PCGS shows only 4 1795 BB-13 silver dollars certified higher than the present coin.