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Alaska Coin Exchange Presents
Seated Liberty Half Dollars
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| 1845-O Seated Liberty Half Dollar SEGS MS-64 | |
| Description: The 1845-O half dollar is a complex issue with eight significant varieties available in addition to normal coins. This particular issue is the WB-108 variety which displays a nicely recut date. This particular coin is a fairly early die state for the variety with strong drapery visible under Miss Liberty's arm. On later die states, this drapery fades and eventually disappears. The strike is quite sharp, which is normal for an 1845-O half. Visually, the obverse is mostly yellow but also has gold and other colors in evidence. Below the date and to the left of it is an area of green tone. The reverse is a beautiful gold with blue near the rims. Wiley and Bugert, authors of the current reference on seated Liberty halves give this variety a rarity rating of R7+ in Mint State condition, indicating that between 4 and 6 pieces are estimated to exist in all MS grades. | |
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| 1856 Seated Liberty Half Dollar SEGS MS-64 | |
| Description: Sharply struck. The obverse is a medium blue-gray and the reverse is gold and gray. Surfaces are mark free. | |
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| 1857 Seated Liberty Half Dollar ANACS Proof-64 | |
| Description: A very attractive early seated half! Light steel gray centers turning more to a light blue toward the rims. Mark free surfaces with good reflectivity. Fifty pieces were struck in Proof this year with about 20 to 25 pieces remaining. | |
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| 1863 Seated Liberty Half Dollar ICG Proof-64 | |
| Description: This is a case where you are better off looking at the scan of the coin rather than having me try to describe it. The best I can do is say that on the obverse, the portrait is largely untoned, the fields are mostly greenish and there is gold color near the rim. The reverse is mostly a light gold except for an area of blue to the lower left of the eagle. This is why I like toned coins - each one is unique! A desirable no motto issue with an original mintage of only 460 pieces, a lower mintage than any of the with motto issues. | |
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| 1870-S Seated Liberty Half Dollar AG-3 | |
| Description: Housed in a cointain holder. | |
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| 1873 Seated Liberty Half Dollar NGC Proof-65 | |
| Description: No arrows. Closed 3 variety, as are all no arrows 1873 Proof halves. Mintage was a slim 600 pieces. The obverse is mostly an orange-gold color with blue at the rims. There is a small spot by Miss Liberty's elbow. The reverse is really stunning with great mirrors and definite cameo contrast. The reverse is essentially white in the central area with some burnt orange near the rim and traces of blue at the rim. A date popularized by coin dealer Harry X. Boosel several decades ago. | |
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| 1876 Seated Liberty Half Dollar AG-3 | |
| Description: The obverse is more worn than a typical AG. Discounted as such. | |
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| 1876 Seated Liberty Half Dollar G-4 | |
| Description: #a | |
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| 1883 Seated Liberty Half Dollar PCI Proof-66 | |
| Description: A real gem with essentially flawless surfaces. No imperfections visible without magnification. The color is a medium smoke gray color, and it is not hazy. Super strike of course. As usual, it looks better in person than it does in the scan. The obverse is not black as it appears, and the speckling on the reverse is not particularly noticeable. The 1883 is one of the better dates of the series, with a mintage of 8000 business strikes and 1039 Proofs. This is certainly one of the finest remaining of the Proofs. | |
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