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)

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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.
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1840 LIBERTY SEATED S$1, NO MOTTO PR65 PCGS

ONLY 50 STRUCK. SOLE HIGHEST GRADED BY PCGS.
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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

1841 LIBERTY SEATED S$1, NO MOTTO MS64+ CACG

WELL STRUCK SATIN LUSTROUS SURFACES. LIGHT AMBER BLUE PATINA. ONLY ONE COIN WITH CAC STICKER GRADED HIGHER. CAC.
$60,000.00

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

1842 LIBERTY SEATED S$1, NO MOTTO PR65 PCGS

A SPECTACULAR, GEM PLANCHET KISSED WITH LIGHT ROSE/BLUE P PATINA. LESS THAN 12 OF THE ORIGINAL 15 STRUCK BELIEVED TO EXIST TODAY. TIED WITH ONE OTHER COIN FOR HIGHEST GRADED.
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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

1844 LIBERTY SEATED S$1, NO MOTTO MS63 NGC

RICHLY TONED. ONLY 20,000 STRUCK. JUST ONE COIN GRADED HIGHER AT NGC.
$11,500.00

1844 LIBERTY SEATED S$1, NO MOTTO MS63 NGC

WELL STRUCK WITH RICH AMBER BLUE TONING. TIED WITH ONE OTHER COIN FOR SECOND HIGHEST GRADED AT NGC.
$11,500.00

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

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.
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1844 LIBERTY SEATED S$1, NO MOTTO PR66 Cameo NGC

GEM CAMEO PROOF KISSED WITH LIGHT ROSE/AMBER PATINA. ONLY 15 STRUCK. SOLE HIGHEST GRADED. ELIASBERG PEDIGREE.
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1845 LIBERTY SEATED S$1, NO MOTTO PR64 PCGS

VERY FLASHY LUSTROUS SURFACES WITH CLAIMS TO CAMEO DESIGNATION. ONLY 15 STRUCK. JUST TWO PR65 COINS GRADED HIGHER AT PCGS.
$76,500.00

1846 LIBERTY SEATED S$1, NO MOTTO MS65 NGC

GEM SURFACES. ONLY 2 MS65+ COINS GRADED HIGHER.
$66,000.00

1846 LIBERTY SEATED S$1, NO MOTTO PR64+ PCGS

REPUNCHED DATE. ONLY 20 STRUCK. JUST 2 HIGHER AT PCGS.
$87,500.00

1847 LIBERTY SEATED S$1, NO MOTTO MS65 PCGS

GEM SATIN WHITE LUSTROUS SURFACES. TIED FOR HIGHEST GRADED.
$89,650.00

1847 LIBERTY SEATED S$1, NO MOTTO MS65 PCGS

GEM WELL STRUCK LUSTROUS SURFACES. FIELDS MERIT A SEMI- PROOFLIKE SURFACES. TIED FOR HIGHEST GRADED.
$89,650.00

1849 LIBERTY SEATED S$1, NO MOTTO MS64 PCGS

VERY CHOICE LUSTROUS SURFACES ENHANCED BY A LIGHT RUSSET PATINA. ONLY THREE COINS GRADED HIGHER AT PCGS.
$16,500.00

1849 LIBERTY SEATED S$1, NO MOTTO PR64 NGC

*QUALITY. FLASHY WHITE PROOF SURFACES. ONLY 15 STRUCK.
$66,000.00

1852 LIBERTY SEATED S$1, RESTRIKE PR63 PCGS

VERY CHOICE PROOF SURFACES. CLAIMS TO CAMEO DEVICES. ONLY 35 STRUCK. RESTRIKE. CAC.
$46,750.00

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