Seated Liberty Design Coinage Question

erwindoc

This design covers several denominations. I have never collected anything with this design as all of the series are all very long and have lots of tougher dates and expensive coins. To the experts out there, which series is the most completable? Are date sets doable?

Crepidodera

Half dimes are the most completable, but also a shorter set than the dimes, quarters, and halves. Date sets are very doable for every denomination except dollars. In my opinion, the quarters are the most challenging. Good luck!

Doug

lermish

Trade dollars are sort of under the Seated Liberty design. Date/mm set is 17 coins and doable in a variety of conditions.

Manifest_Destiny

+1 What Doug said.

yosclimber

@Crepidodera said:
Half dimes are the most completable, but also a shorter set than the dimes, quarters, and halves. Date sets are very doable for every denomination except dollars. In my opinion, the quarters are the most challenging. Good luck!

Only if you exclude the unique 1870-s.

But if you know the person who owns it, you might be able to borrow it temporarily to complete your set.
I know @epc has a photo from a couple of years ago with the 1870-s in his case, completing his set.

Could create a new concept, "Rent a key".
Maybe not that much different from how things are already done,
where sometimes a person will complete their set and then sell it shortly after.

edwardjulio

Put together a Type Set-27 coins:
H10C-5
10C -6
20C-1
25C-6
50C-6
1$-2
T$-1
"Variety is the spice of life"

CaptHenway

@edwardjulio said:
Put together a Type Set-27 coins:
H10C-5
10C -6
20C-1
25C-6
50C-6
1$-2
T$-1
"Variety is the spice of life"

This.

epc

When I was finishing my middle and late date large cent sets, I decided to work on Liberty Seated Half Dimes because it is a completable set (excepting the 1870-S as noted above). There are a few tough ones in the standard 70 coin set, running into 4 figures even for well worn examples. But if you have some money and some patience, you can do it. It was really fun for me, assembling a nice registry set across the street, and now pursuing more modest examples of die marriages and notable die states. And as @yosclimber noted, Tom Bender let me have the 70-S for a couple minutes at a Baltimore show a few years ago.

Barberian

Wow! Nice set, @epc !

johnny9434

@Manifest_Destiny said:
+1 What Doug said.

+2, what Doug said

Catbert

Attempting to complete the seated halves is bankrupting me.

oih82w8

I thought that I mentioned this earlier, but a Seated Liberty Type Set (7070) worked out nice for me before I broke it up. 😬

seatedlib3991

In the past I did a date set of Seated Half Dollars. Right now I am doing a Seated Date set but I am using every denomination : half dime thru dollar. James