Finding Good Buys Among Seated Liberty Halves
Feb 19, 2021
3 minutes
BY MARK BENVENUTO
(Images courtesy Numismatic Guaranty Corporation)
The Seated Liberty design on United States silver, the artistry of Mr. Christian Gobrecht, dominated U.S. silver coinage for much of the 19th century, from coins as small as the little half dime, to our big, silver dollars. The Seated Liberty half dollars were issued from 1839 all the way to 1891, and somewhere in that time came out of Mints in Philadelphia, New Orleans, San Francisco and Carson City. At times these halves came roaring out in the millions; sometimes they were naught but a trickle. But in this
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