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Collecting Seated Liberty Dollars

ARE YOU one of the many coin collectors who collects silver dollars? After all, silver dollars (at least the ones before 1936) are large, often considered beautiful, and minted in 90% silver. Also, they’re often challenging to collect because of select dates that are scarce and pricey.

If you’ve reached the limits of what you wanted to do with Morgan and Peace dollars, you may be interested in an even greater challenge in U.S. dollars. You may be interested in pursuing dollars minted before 1878. In this article, I’m going to talk about collecting Seated Liberty dollars.

Designed by Christian Gobrecht, the obverse of the Seated Liberty dollar is very similar to Gobrecht’s earlier dollars that are known as

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