New online reference guide for Seated Dollars

Dick Osburn and Brian Cushing started a reference guide for attributing seated dollars,
WWW.seateddollarvarieties.com

 

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I just used this last night to attribute my 1842. Didnt realize it was new lol

 

I am not sure how long it has been out now, but has been at least a little while. Regardless though, a fantastic site and one well worthy of the mention.

Thanks, KJ.

 

February 1,2016

 

See... a little while.

Seriously though, I did think it older than that, but time isn't my friend these days. I must've stumbled upon it right about the time it was launched then.

 

I knew it was coming. This is great. Now hopefully seated dollars will get the respect they deserve. I love big heavy silver coins and buy every quality original one I can find. Problem free seated dollars aren't that easy to find tho just like trade dollars

 

True that. x10.

 

Yup and I try to buy every one I can find of either. Off to a show this week I got 2 seateds and 5 trades to go in my case and will be on the hunt for more

 

Cool site. I've added it to my bookmarks.

I too see Seated Dollars as a very underappreciated series.

 

Overall I wouldn't call them a disrespected or under appreciated series rather the nice ones just price a lot of people out due to the difficulty of finding nice problem free ones. I would agree though that as far as Seated Dollar varieties go they're definitely under the radar compared to the dimes and halfs

 

When you can buy a original skin vf seated dollar with a mintage under 100k for less than $500 and an xf for $700. And when you can buy an xf with a mintage of 7500 for under $2500. That's underrated. Compare to a 93-s Morgan

 

I had that place bookmarked before the page finished loading.

 

That is a good point, compared to Morgans they are VERY undervalued. I guess you could also argue that Morgans are over valued as well. Imagine what the price would be if they were Morgans with a mintage like that.

A lot of seated coin prices don't really mirror their actual rarity all that well. I love seated everything so if everyone could keep under appreciating them for a couple more months while I snag a few more that would be fantastic

 

Cool! I have but a couple of these bad boys, and now I have another excuse to look more closely at them.

 

How many of you have met Brian Cushing?

 

I wonder if he's a Houston Texans fan....

 

If one wishes to use an extremely popular series, or even worse the key, as the "standard", most every other series could be considered "underrated". The simple fact is though that no other series from times past is going to magically gain the momentum to put its general popularly, or sheer availability (which allows for them to be so widely collected) on par with Morgans. This certainly isn't to say that the popularity of, Seated dollars in this case, cannot or arguably shouldn't improve, but apples must be compared to apples, not Macadamia nuts.

 

Very true. I have one that is straight graded F12 that had tiny initials carved in the obverse. I did not pay straight grade money for it, but I do regret my haste in buying it.

 

It brings the point of scarcity home a bit when one contemplates that single year/MM issues of Morgan Dollars exceeded the entire series mintage of Seated dollars 39 times. I have no doubt that there are currently more 1921 Morgans extant - individually from each of the three Mints - than total Seated Dollars struck. Heck, the GSA sales pumped out almost half the Seated Dollar total mintage in Carson City Morgans alone. From a strict monetary standpoint they're among the most undervalued of US coinage, but that sheer rarity ensures there will never be sufficient demand to do much about pricing. The moment demand increases, prices will skyrocket and discourage any further demand.

 

Well, I checked mine, and since I checked them, I figured I'd label them, too. Most common 1840, and I assume the 1847 is also common.