Post your Seated Dollars

Any year, any grade, slabbed or not. Liberty must be seated on a rock. (Trade Dollars have their own thread, and rightfully so). Mine run the gamut, some are dipped/cleaned/beat up. I am partial to the No Mottos myself but appreciate them all.




First year of issue. This one came out of a Heritage Auction. Lighting tends to exaggerate vertical marks on all of my coins. What you see are faint hairlines.

 

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Nice one Doc , but I don't have any .

 

Beautiful O-mint Larry. I bet that has some nice iridescent color when tilted under a light.

Time to go shopping, Rusty!

 

This 1841 is deeply toned and in fact NGC called it "environmental damage." I think that's debatable, but no one can doubt its originality.




In his discussion in his silver dollar Encyclopedia, Bowers states that although the mintage of 1841 was fairly high (173,000) fewer circulated examples appear on the market than dollars dated 1840. The reason was unknown at the time of his writing.
The President elected in 1840, William Henry Harrison, died a month after his inauguration in April, 1841. The V.P., Virginian John Tyler, took office and later in the year his entire cabinet (except for DAnl. Webster) resigned over his veto of a bill calling for a fiscal bank of the US to be established.

 

A quality seated dollar is something I lack waiting for the right one. I do have this xf details one that's kinda neat in its own right she's not seated on a rock tho

 

OK, I'll make an exception for that one as she appears to be perched on hard porcelain.

 

Beautiful example, Larry. The absence of rim bumps on a mid grade circulated piece is remarkable. Love the patina!

 

here is an 1842, which I bought some years back when I started collecting. While I can't find evidence of cleaning it has definitely been dipped. Today, I would not buy this coin although it does have nice EF details IMO.



Again from Bowers' Encyclopedia: While 1842 dollars have about the same mintage as 1841 (approx 185K) they are found about 4x as often in circulated grades as the 1841.

 

Bill? Put down the Playboy magazine.........

 

Yankee42, that is a very attractive 59-O dollar. Bowers writes (I'm extracting and paraphrasing) that many of these were minted for export to China, but they were also saved in quantity here. After 1873, when the intrinsic value of the silver in the coin was less than the face value, more found their way into circulation. So, circulated specimens are found with some frequency. Most of the ones sent to the orient were apparently melted. During the Treasury releases of 1962-64, 3000 mint state coins were sold. Most of them are very baggy, according to Bowers hardly any of them grade higher than MS62.

 

This is about the crustiest coin in my entire collection! I love it! Why it was never ruined in a bowl of EZ-EST is beyond me but I am happy to be its caretaker for a little while. I'll post some more about 1843 later.

 

Here is the only one that I own, no idea on the history of the countermark though:

 

Maybe if someone on the forum has a copy of the Brunk reference they could look that one up. If not, I would post it on the PCGS forum as there are some serious counterstamp collectors there who really get into the research. That dollar has a beautiful look to it, thanks for posting!

 

True coin porn, everything else is mislabeled as such.

 

Thanks. It graded F12 by PCGS. I got it on ebay some time back. Ts funny you mention bowers I consulted his coin grading book when buying it.

 

Again from Bowers: "In circulated grades.. the 1843.. may be the most common of the dates in the 1840's." It is an extreme rarity in MS64 or higher. Also in 1843, Samuel F.B. Morse received a grant of $30,000 to develop a telegraph line between Washington, DC and Baltimore. Charles Thurber invented a typewriter, and Elias Howe the sewing machine. Edgar A. Poe's "The Gold Bug", a tale of buried treasure, was published in Philadelphia, and "A Christmas Carol" by Dickens first appeared in print.

 

Well I needed one for my type set still lack a worthy motto version but just won this on ha wanted a nice better grade circulated one with a low mintage and good original surfaces this fit all of them mintage 7500