Liberty Seated Dollars

By CoinWeek... Harlan J. Berk, Ltd. has acquired and will offer the F.C.C. Boyd specimen 1870-S Liberty Seated Dollar. The F.C.C. Boyd specimen was...

By Charles Morgan and Hubert Walker for CoinWeek Notes ..... Silver dollar coinage resumed in 1840 with the Liberty Seated design. For the first decade of the denomination's reintroduction, the Philadelphia...

By Charles Morgan and Hubert Walker for CoinWeek Notes ..... The Liberty Seated Dollar design, which debuted in 1840, was largely out of circulation when...

By Charles Morgan and Hubert Walker for CoinWeek Notes ..... When the production of silver dollar coinage was suspended during the Jefferson Administration, the United...

By Charles Morgan and Hubert Walker for CoinWeek Notes .....   Despite its final battle taking place on Palmito Ranch, in Cameron County, Texas, on May 12 and 13, 1865, the formal...

By Charles Morgan and Hubert Walker for CoinWeek Notes .....   The Philadelphia Mint used one die pair to strike 26,000 1855 Liberty Seated Dollars. Coinage for the denomination commenced on May...

By Charles Morgan and Hubert Walker for CoinWeek Notes .....   The 1856 Liberty Seated Dollar is a semi-key in a series replete with deceptively tough dates. Researchers Osburn and Cushing have...

By Charles Morgan and Hubert Walker for CoinWeek Notes .....   Production of the 1861 Liberty Seated Dollar occurred during a period of great stress for the United States of America and...

By Charles Morgan and Hubert Walker for CoinWeek Notes .....   On a pair of Thursdays eight months apart, the Philadelphia Mint struck its entire mintage of 1853 Liberty Seated Dollars. The...

By Charles Morgan and Hubert Walker for CoinWeek Notes .....   While traders saw some utility exporting United States silver dollars to Asia, demand for the...

By Charles Morgan and Hubert Walker for CoinWeek Notes .....   The United States Mint produced Liberty Seated Dollars at just two of its three operational facilities in 1871. The Philadelphia Mint struck...

By Charles Morgan and Hubert Walker for CoinWeek Notes .....   In 1859, silver mines in Arizona were fully online, with metal shipped west and east. Also, it was in this year...

By Charles Morgan and Hubert Walker for CoinWeek Notes .....   It's important to consider the strain under which the United States Mint was operating. A...

By Charles Morgan and Hubert Walker for CoinWeek Notes .....   While the Philadelphia Mint struck Liberty Seated Dollars in increasingly larger quantities from 1869 onward,...

By Charles Morgan and Hubert Walker for CoinWeek Notes .....   The Mint's First Attempt to Bring Back the Silver Dollar The suspension of silver dollar production...