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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Gallienus, post: 11399142, member: 42034&quot;]Liberty Seated coinage is one of my favorite series. I&#039;d really like to enlarge my collection of this stuff and am hoping to find some contacts at the FUN show this January.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve several old purchases I&#039;ll try to post: mainly bought before the numerical slabbing days.&nbsp; Here&#039;s an 1859 Seated 50 cents that I think is at least a ms-63 or 64 purchased for $65.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1525966[/ATTACH]</p><p>Liberty Seated 50 cents, 1859, unc ms 63 or 64, $65, purchased 2009.</p><p><br /></p><p>It has nice original blueish toning with unfortunately some old fingerprints. This is actually a transitional issue so the planchlet has some roughness prior to striking as they didn&#039;t quite have their act together at the time. They were coming out of the &quot;Moneda Feble&quot; (weak money) episode of greatly debased minor coinage at the time.&nbsp; LIMA mint as you can see, 9 DEC{IMOS} FINO = .750 fineness.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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