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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Skyman, post: 1951108, member: 28299&quot;]Just so you won&#039;t think that all I&#039;m collecting these days are raw Washingtons, <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> one of the sets I&#039;ve been trying to put together for the last few years has been a business strike 1858 set.&nbsp; There are 29 potential slots in the set.&nbsp; The set I&#039;m building will never be &quot;complete&quot; as there are a couple of gold coins that are prohibitively priced for me.&nbsp; There are also a fair amount of branch mint coins that get rather pricey once you get above a VF.&nbsp; So, the way I&#039;ve decided to build the set is to set a top dollar value I&#039;m willing to spend for denominations across the board, and then within that buy a coin that is appealing to me.&nbsp; That means that the coin quality within the set will range quite a bit, from roughly F15 to MS65.&nbsp; Here is the 1858-S SL half dollar for the set.&nbsp; It is graded MS61.&nbsp; The S mint half is BY FAR the rarest of the 1858 halves.&nbsp; Also, once you get into UNC grades even that small population drops way off.&nbsp; PCGS has graded 15 MS60 or higher, and NGC has graded 13 MS60 or higher.&nbsp; This one is graded NGC MS61.&nbsp; The images are by Bob Campbell, and I think he has done an excellent job.&nbsp; In the images there is some haze by Liberty&#039;s bust and midsection, that is caused by scratching on the slab.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i106.photobucket.com/albums/m246/SkyMan58/Seated%20Liberty/bc1858S_61SLHo5_2_zps024a44a7.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><img src="http://i106.photobucket.com/albums/m246/SkyMan58/Seated%20Liberty/bc1858S_61SLHo6_1_zps6cc91b22.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><img src="http://i106.photobucket.com/albums/m246/SkyMan58/Seated%20Liberty/bc1858S_61SLHr4Dirty_zps82130f67.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><img src="http://i106.photobucket.com/albums/m246/SkyMan58/Seated%20Liberty/bc1858S_61SLHr7Col_zps8bd6b314.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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