Seated liberty collecting

I have decided that I want to start a collection of seated liberty coins of all denominations. Is there any specific things that I should keep an eye out for like grading tips or certain coins to look for? I plan to start small and add the coins gradually.

 

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First off, I think it's wonderful and a terrific collection. Hat's off !

Many, many, many of these coins are cleaned, even some in slabs. The higher the denomination, the worse it gets. Eye-appealing seated dollars are tough to find.

Be choosy ! Be patient ! That's always important, but more so with these than some.

Get to know Dick Osburn. He's a great guy and major league Seated man.

 

PM me, we could have a nice long chat. i can recommend some good books and alot of grading experience with em edited

 

Seated Liberty coins are to me a much under collected series . Like 900 said be patient look for original surfaces and solid strikes and you can't go wrong .
rzage

 

For original surfaces, does the cartwheel effect work on these also?

 

Seated coins are so undervalued, for example with the quarters out of the 108 date/mintmark combos only 16 have a mintage of over 1 million.

Seated stuff is so intriguing and beautiful. very under collected and damn hard to find with orig. surfaces

 

Sounds like a great collection to start

 

Sounds like a tough one but it will be nice when done.

 

One thing to watch for are the war year dimes.
Some are really tough coins to find.

 

Cool thanks

 

Ahh a gluten for punishment. You are stepping up to be with the big boys now. Completing ANY of those sets is a real accomplishment. (The half dimes are the easiest, and they are NOT easy.) I would assume you are going to ignore certain pieces such as the 70-S half dime, the no arrows 73-CC dime, the no arrows 73-CC quarter, the no arrows or rays 1853-O half dollar and the 1870-S dollar. Even without those your going to be chasing some major rarities.

One thing I would recommend would be joining the Liberty Seated Collectors Club and getting all five volumes of the Gobrecht Journal.

 

To Conder's point... do you intend to complete the collection of all dates and mints ? Surely not.

Since a collection can be "anything you want it to be", one can have a wonderful Seated collection without all issues.

 

Also to Conder's point : yes yes yes join the club and get the literature. Equally hip as owning the coins... maybe more so.

 

I don't need to collect everything right now. Just want to get a nice collection

 

Just a thought for you. Do a Seated type set and take some time to find something nice for each coin. You could add proofs in the future if you wished.

 

http://www.seateddimevarieties.com/

http://www.stellacoinnews.com/index...omplete-guide-to-liberty-seated-half-dollars/

http://www.coinlink.com/Articles/author/e-gobrecht/

http://www.seateddime.com/

http://www.lsccweb.org/

http://www.tradedollarnut.com/Home Page/Home first links/Seated Set/legendseated.htm

http://seateddimes.yuku.com/forum/view/id/70



Here is a sample of the The E-Gobrecht Collectors Club
The Electronic Newsletter of the LIBERTY SEATED COLLECTORS CLUB
http://www.seateddimevarieties.com/37-E-GobrechtVolume4,Issue4.pdf

 

Welcome to the club, so to speak!

I specialize in dimes and half dimes, but have accumulations of quarters and halves as well as a type set of dollars. Unfortunately, I'm at the point where adding new coins is going to be expensive when I can find them at all.

Keep in mind that because Seated Liberties are undercollected, the price guides are going to be way out of whack on a lot of semi-key dates. I've placed strong bids on quite a few such coins (circulated), and been shot out of the water every time.

 

Thank you for all the help

 

Just jumped in with both feet. I guess thats how we learn. Hope I didn't do that bad on the auction.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=110516981159

 

I figured , since they are under collected , you would have won your fair share , I just finished my 20th century Type set , and seated coins are next , what's the best book fo4r the beginner seated Liberty collector .
rzage:hatch::hammer: