The suspension of silver dollar production was lifted in 1831 under United States Mint Director Samuel Moore, enabling the resumption of the mintage of a coin not made in this country since 1804. It wasn’t until 1835 however, under Mint Director Robert M. Patterson, that efforts to actually produce the coin moved forward. The dollar […]
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1872 Seated Liberty Counterfeit Dollar By Max Spiegel – Numismatic Guaranty Corporation …… Rough texture and minuscule raised dots within the recesses are clues that this 1872 Seated Liberty Counterfeit Dollar. The 1872 Seated Liberty Dollar had the highest mintage of any coin in the series with just over 1.1 million pieces struck. Most appear […]
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By Bullion Shark LLC …… Liberty Seated Dollars, designed by United States Mint Chief Engraver Christian Gobrecht, were issued from 1840 to 1873 and were the first silver dollars issued since 1804. They are not as well known or as widely collected as Morgan and Peace dollars mainly because it is a challenging series to […]
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By Jack D. Young, Early American Coppers (EAC) …… Another of the holed and repaired fakes, the 1836 Gobrecht Dollar is one of the most expensive “varieties” of the deceptive struck counterfeit series. It is also one of the most TPG-authenticated of the group, with eight certified examples documented and several having sold in major […]
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By Greg Shishmanian ….. Last year a friend who’s been a coin dealer since the late 1970s shared a story about a shop he visited many years ago named Louisville Numismatic Exchange. He purchased some coins from the owner Bryd Saylor and about a week later he received a nice thank you note. He remembered […]
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GreatCollections is offering an 1853 Seated Liberty dollar certified MS-65 with a Gold Shield by PCGS, one of two examples reported in that grade by the service. With an opening bid of $65,000, the sale closes November 28 alongside two other Seated Liberty dollars. The Coinage Act of February 21, 1853, which lowered the weight […]
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By Victor Bozarth for PCGS …… In the first installment of this three-part series on collecting the coinage of the Carson City (CC) Mint, I covered the three smaller silver denominations produced by that famous mint in Nevada, including dimes, quarters, and half dollars. Here in part two, I turn to the “cartwheels” – silver […]
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By James McCartney – Senior Numismatist, Stack’s Bowers …… The 1870 Liberty Seated dollar represents the final lower-mintage Philadelphia issue before production exploded above one million coins per year in 1871 and 1872. Just 415,000 1870 dollars were struck, primarily at the request of bullion depositors for use in trade with China. These conditions […]
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By Greg Shishmanian ….. A longtime friend and I were enjoying one of our many conversations on our favorite series when suddenly he suggested that I build a Liberty Seated Dollar (LSD) grading set. For several decades we’ve focused on acquiring premium quality (PQ) examples of each date. I’d never considered building a grading set […]
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By CoinWeek …. Bidding ends Sunday, November 29 at GreatCollections.com for this toned 1871-CC Seated Liberty silver dollar, graded MS-61 by PCGS. A key date in the Seated Liberty dollar series, the 1871-CC has the lowest mintage of the four Carson City Mint issues, with only 1,376 struck. In spite of this, more 1871-CCs–many of […]
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By James McCartney – Senior Numismatist, Stack’s Bowers …… Throughout the 1840s, the United States Mint struck silver dollars only at the request of bullion depositors who asked for this denomination. There was no significant supply of domestically mined silver available during that decade, limiting the amount of bullion available for dollar coinage. The […]
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Legend Numismatics Partner Bruce Morelan sits down with CoinWeek to discuss the finest collection of Liberty Seated dollars ever assembled, the Legend Collection. Liberty Seated dollars were struck from 1840 to 1873. The coin was issued after years of experimentation with the “Gobrecht dollars” and were struck starting in the last year of Martin Van […]
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