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Saving the Best for Last, the Fourteen Final Years of the Half Dimes, Circulated and Proof

hen it comes to the Seated Liberty design on United States silver – the artwork of Mr. Christian Gobrecht – the image has to be familiar to just about every collector out there. The seated Lady Liberty has graced everything from the big, silver dollars all the way down to the tiny half dimes. For the half dimes, this design graced our silver five-cent pieces from 1837 up to the end of the half dime coinage in 1873. From 1860 to that terminal date there were some years with pretty hefty mintages, as well as some that

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