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 PCGS

ONLY 50 STRUCK. SOLE HIGHEST GRADED BY PCGS.
$165,000.00

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.
$38,500.00

1843 LIBERTY SEATED S$1, NO MOTTO MS64 PCGS

VIRTUALLY GEM SURFACES. ONLY 2 MS64+ COINS GRADED HIGHER.
$29,700.00

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

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 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.
$110,000.00

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.
$14,850.00

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

1855 LIBERTY SEATED S$1, NO MOTTO PR66 Cameo PCGS

GEM CAMEO PROOF. ONLY 60 STRUCK. SOLE HIGHEST GRADED BY PCGS.
$121,000.00

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.
$41,250.00

1857 LIBERTY SEATED S$1, NO MOTTO PR65 PCGS

A WONDER GEM. ONLY 50 STRUCK. JUST TWO HIGHER AT PCGS. CAC.
$57,500.00

1859-S LIBERTY SEATED S$1, NO MOTTO MS62 PCGS

VERY SCARCE DATE. ONLY 20,000 STRUCK.
$16,500.00

1860-O LIBERTY SEATED S$1, NO MOTTO MS65+ PCGS

GEM SATIN LUSTROUS SURFACES. TIED WITH TWO OTHER COINS FOR HIGHEST GRADED AT PCGS.
$82,500.00

1861 LIBERTY SEATED S$1, NO MOTTO PR65 Cameo PCGS

GEM PROOF SURFACES WITH CAMEO DEVICES. BLUE/GREENISH PERIPHERAL TONING ADORNS THIS MASTERPIECE. TIED WITH TWO OTHER SPECIMENS FOR HIGHEST CAMEO GRADED AT PCGS.
$33,000.00

1861 LIBERTY SEATED S$1, NO MOTTO PR66 PCGS

GEM PROOF SURFACES KISSED WITH A KALEIDOSCOPE OF COLORFUL PATINA. ONLY 1,000 STRUCK. JUST A SINGLE COIN GRADED HIGHER AT PCGS. STRUCK DURING THE BEGINING OF THE CIVIL WAR.
$47,500.00

1861 LIBERTY SEATED S$1, NO MOTTO PR66 PCGS

GEM PROOF SURFACES LAYERED WITH A LIGHT BLUISH/GREEN AMBER PATINA. JUST A SINGLE COIN GRADED HIGHER AT PCGS. CIVIL WAR YEAR. GARRETT PEDIGREE.
$47,500.00

1866 LIBERTY SEATED S$1, MOTTO PR66+ Deep Cameo PCGS

MOTTO. GEM SNOW WHITE DEVICES RESTING ON DEEP MIRRORED SURFACES. ONLY 725 STRUCK. SOLE HIGHEST GRADED AT PCGS. CAC.
$98,500.00

1867 LIBERTY SEATED S$1, MOTTO PR65 PCGS

WITH MOTTO. VIVID TWILIGHT BLUE TONE. ONLY 625 STRUCK.
$14,300.00

1868 LIBERTY SEATED S$1, MOTTO PR66+ Deep Cameo PCGS

GEM DEEP MIRRORED PROOF SURFACES WITH FROSTY DEVICES. TRULY A BLACK AND WHITE PROOF. ONLY 600 STRUCK. JUST A SINGLE COIN GRADED HIGHER AT PCGS. ONLY FOUR COINS GRADED HIGHER AT PCGS FOR THE WHOLE SERIES. CAC.
$110,000.00

1869 LIBERTY SEATED S$1, MOTTO PR66 PCGS

GEM PROOF SURFACES. ONLY 600 STRUCK. JUST TWO COINS GRADED HIGHER AT PCGS.
$22,000.00