Liberty Seated Dollars
The year was 1840. Martin Van Buren was completing a Presidential term blighted by terrible economic depression. This era, called the Hard Times, resulted from years of reckless Western land speculation and the growth of unregulated banks issuing a flood of unsecured paper money. The prolonged depression ravaged America’s agriculture and industry and saw hundreds of thousands starving and unemployed.
Inherited from President Andrew Jackson was the Van Buren Administration’s faith in “hard money”— silver and gold—as the only reliable store of value in contrast to shaky credit and worthless paper money. Expressing this hard money outlook, the Mint strove from 1836 to 1840 to create a new circulating silver dollar. No dollar coin had appeared for circulation since 1804, when the last of the 1803-dated Draped Bust dollars were released.
Mint Director Robert Maskell Patterson viewed the new dollar as the pinnacle of America&rsqu.... (Expand Text)
1840 LIBERTY SEATED S$1, NO MOTTO PR65 NGC
GEM PROOF SURFACES WITH VERY LIGHT ROSE/BLUE PATINA. ONLY 15 STRUCK. TIED FOR HIGHEST GRADED. VIRGIL BRAND PEDIGREE.
$110,000.00
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1840 LIBERTY SEATED S$1, NO MOTTO PR65 PCGS
ONLY 50 STRUCK. SOLE HIGHEST GRADED BY PCGS.
$165,000.00
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1841 LIBERTY SEATED S$1, NO MOTTO MS64 PCGS
VERY CHOICE WITH MIRRORLIKE SURFACES. MIST OF AMBER ROSE TONING ENHANCES THE BEAUTY OF THIS COIN. JUST FOUR COINS GRADED HIGHER AT PCGS. CAC.
$44,000.00
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1841 LIBERTY SEATED S$1, NO MOTTO MS64+ PCGS
WELL STRUCK SATIN LUSTROUS SURFACES. LIGHT AMBER BLUE PATINA. JUST TWO COINS GRADED HIGHER AT PCGS. CAC.
$60,000.00
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1842 LIBERTY SEATED S$1, NO MOTTO MS64+ PCGS
GEM WHITE PROOFLIKE SURFACES. TIED WITH TWO OTHER COINS FOR HIGHEST GRADED. CAC.
$34,650.00
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1843 LIBERTY SEATED S$1, NO MOTTO MS64 PCGS
VIRTUALLY GEM SURFACES. ONLY 2 MS64+ COINS GRADED HIGHER.
$34,650.00
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1844 LIBERTY SEATED S$1, NO MOTTO MS64 PCGS
WELL STRUCK, GEM SURFACES. VERY RARE IN HIGH MINT STATE GRADES. JUST A SINGLE COIN GRADED HIGHER. CAC.
$63,250.00
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1844 LIBERTY SEATED S$1, NO MOTTO PR64+ PCGS
GEM PROOF SURFACES WITH RICH BLUISH GREEN PATINA. ONLY 15 STRUCK. SOLE HIGHEST GRADED AT PCGS. CAC.
$104,500.00
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1844 LIBERTY SEATED S$1, NO MOTTO PR65 PCGS
GEM CAMEO PROOF KISSED WITH LIGHT ROSE/AMBER PATINA. ONLY 15 STRUCK. SOLE HIGHEST GRADED. ELIASBERG PEDIGREE. CAC.
$165,000.00
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1846 LIBERTY SEATED S$1, NO MOTTO PR64+ PCGS
REPUNCHED DATE. ONLY 20 STRUCK. JUST 2 HIGHER AT PCGS.
$87,500.00
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1847 LIBERTY SEATED S$1, NO MOTTO MS65 PCGS
GEM SATIN WHITE LUSTROUS SURFACES. TIED FOR HIGHEST GRADED.
$85,000.00
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1847 LIBERTY SEATED S$1, NO MOTTO MS65 PCGS
GEM WELL STRUCK LUSTROUS SURFACES. FIELDS MERIT A SEMI- PROOFLIKE SURFACES. TIED FOR HIGHEST GRADED.
$85,000.00
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1847 LIBERTY SEATED S$1, NO MOTTO PR64 PCGS
VERY CHOICE PROOF SURFACES ENHANCED WITH LOVELY ROSE BLIE PATINA. ONLY 15 COINS ORIGINALLY STRUCK. TIED FOR HIGHEST GRADED AT PCGS. SOLE HIGHEST WITH A CAC STICKER. CAC.
$82,500.00
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1849 LIBERTY SEATED S$1, NO MOTTO PR64 NGC
*QUALITY. FLASHY WHITE PROOF SURFACES. ONLY 15 STRUCK.
$66,000.00
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1849 LIBERTY SEATED S$1, NO MOTTO PR65 PCGS
GEM PROOF SURFACES WITH BLUE ROSE PATINA. ONLY 15 COINS ORIGINALLY STRUCK. JUST A SINGLE PR66 COIN GRADED HIGHER AT PCGS. CAC.
$137,500.00
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1852 LIBERTY SEATED S$1, RESTRIKE PR63 PCGS
VERY CHOICE PROOF SURFACES. CLAIMS TO CAMEO DEVICES. ONLY 35 STRUCK. RESTRIKE. CAC.
$46,750.00
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1854 LIBERTY SEATED S$1, NO MOTTO PR64 Cameo PCGS
LOVELY CAMEO PROOF. ONLY 30 STRUCK. JUST TWO GRADED HIGHER AT PCGS.
$37,400.00
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1854 LIBERTY SEATED S$1, NO MOTTO PR65 Cameo PCGS
GEM CAMEO PROOF. ONLY 30 COINS STRUCK. TIED FOR HIGHEST GRADED AT PCGS WITH ONE OTHER COIN.
$90,000.00
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1855 LIBERTY SEATED S$1, NO MOTTO PR66 Cameo PCGS
GEM CAMEO PROOF. ONLY 60 STRUCK. SOLE HIGHEST GRADED BY PCGS.
$130,000.00
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1856 LIBERTY SEATED S$1, NO MOTTO PR65 PCGS
GEM MIRRORED PROOF SURFACES WITH RICH AQUAMARINE PATINA. ONLY 50 STRUCK. JUST A SINGE COIN GRADED HIGHER AT PCGS. CAC.
$45,000.00
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1857 LIBERTY SEATED S$1, NO MOTTO PR65 PCGS
FABULOUS GEM SURFACES. ONLY 50 STRUCK. JUST TWO COINS GRADED HIGHER AT PCGS. CAC.
$57,500.00
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