there is something about seated coins

1907Quarter

Gradually and inexorably these have become my favorite design. I love how the dark grey toning mixes with the coin in the area of the lower drapery to give it a dramatic, contrasty, 3 dimensional look. In fact the darker and heavier the toning the better IMHO they look. Do others agree or have other favorite toning(monochromatic, multi-color), or other aspects of this design they would like to share on the forum?

ARCO

I love em too. Many are common, many are very scarce. So many nuances within the different denominations as to grading, & strike. Many dates can be identified and separated by different dies.

Give me an 1851 half dollar any day!

Tyler

1907Quarter

and I have an 1861 xf-45/au I can't stop looking at, beautifully toned!

lazeroo

welcome! lol.

seated coinage is also my weakness. I collect seated halves and half dimes.

i'm really hooked.

rob.

Nic

Great design...and very long lived. I love um with rainbow or album toning...gold centers...the best. K
Edited spelling error.

Catch22

Some older, Seated coins take on a very attractive brown tone that I find very appealing. Almost like the copper nickel cents, but with a more consistent, liquid look. Hard to describe, but I love it. And, yes, Gobrecht's designs are my passion. Even at todays prices, the halves and half dimes are still possible to complete. The dimes and quarters are considerably tougher, if not impossible without an unlimited budget and a few years worth of patience. One of the most unappreciated aspects of the seated coins is the difficulty in locating circulated examples of the more difficult dates. Some are even more rare in Good to Fine than in Mint State. I would venture to say that money not withstanding, a collection of mint state coins is much easier to complete than a collection of circulated examples. Partly because of collectors refusing to part with their coins, but also because of the uneven wear of the reverse compared to the obverse, making split grades the norm on some dates. This is especially true for the San Francisco quarters and many of the dimes. I've seen many scarce coins with solid fine obverse's while the reverse is no better than AG. There are many seated coins with survival figures less than 100 in all grades. At least knowledgable estimates suggest that to be the case.

Caution: Gobrecht's disease can be worse than Morgan's.

michael

that was a great thread !! take a look at this coin and tell me what you think see the attatchment below i hope it is there if not pm me and i will send you the image

sincerely michael

Ronyahski

I got hooked on the multi-colored proofs. Nothing beats the colors on a proof seated... purples, blues, greens, reds, crimson, orange, yellow, all of them. The best of the bunch have that look that was more appreciated 10-20 years ago, with either the proof or MS coins, that creamy painted on luster. And the design... rough but elegant. I should stop, I think I am gushing.

braddick

Great thread!
I just received, today, a VF'ish 1872 Seated dollar from an eBay auction. The auction stated the coin was counterstamped on the reverse (it is, with small letters 'canada').
The obverse has some corrosion, but the overall appeal of the dollar is sound and it has never been cleaned (probably the number one plague of the series!).
Holding the Seated dollar in my hand and feeling the heft of it was satisfying.

I'm also growing to like these coins more and more!

Now, if I can only win the Type one 1844 I've got a bid in on...

1907Quarter

Braddick-
So where can you find a dirty 1870,71,72 in F-VF?? So looking for these...

1907Quarter

No sooner that I asked...
ebay# 1375577304
What do you think folks?!

roadrunner

I don't agree that a circ set is easier to assemble than a mint state set. May also depend on which denomination you are talking about. Good luck on a mint state set of seated quarters. Last I knew 3-4 of the dates still don't exist in UNC but CDN lists prices for them. Ray may have some more up to date data on this though. All of the dates are available in circ, though I'd have to admit that there aren't too many 1873cc NA quarters available in circ. Not many uncs either. What would an UNC set cost if the 3 missing coins did exist: maybe $300,000-500,000. Waiting for the rare CC's and many of the S mints to show up would be taxing. I'd love to be able to put one together but I'm too fussy and would want a gem set. Oh well, keep dreaming.

roadrunner

DIMEMAN

I like the Seated dimes myself. I have every date and mm except the 72-CC, which I had in XF until I sold it a couple of months ago so that I could buy some Mercs. Maybe I'll find another or sell the rest of them. I got into the variety thing, so I have many extras. Some I have 20-30 of like the 76-CC and 91-O. I think my favorites are the 1868 blundered date proof and the 1873 double shield.

Seated coins are very beautiful and tone real nice if allowed to. And the proofs as someone mentioned are very pretty.

Jon

Dave99B

I'm slowly falling in love with the Seated Quarters. I'd love to try and assemble a PCGS set in G-VG.

Many of the mintage numbers are ridiculous. I'll ponder this another 10 years first, then decide.

Dave

kaz

I really like seated coins with this look, and have a hard time resisting the urge to reach for my wallet when I see one:





.. and sometimes one has such a different look about it that I can't hold back either:



definitely a habit-forming series

Yorkshireman

I love seated halves. The design is simply beautiful.
While I am working on finding some nice AU coins of a certain date range, the cameo proof coins take my breath away.

rhedden

Wow, talk about necro-posting.... a non-descript thread from 2002 suddenly gets revived?

LindeDad

Never got into the proofs myself. But have really admired those halves.

mercurydimeguy

ElmerFusterpuck

Ed62

NumisOxide

My favorite coin design too. The halves are my favorite but I've been picking up a lot more quarters in the last year.

Catbert

<< <i>Wow, talk about necro-posting.... a non-descript thread from 2002 suddenly gets revived? >>



Old thread revival is fine with me as long as it is noted as being done in the revival post. This should be a courtesy to alert readers and is proper forum etiquette, IMO.

Dave99B

That 1839 is stunning.......Wow!

Dave

kaz

That is an incredible piece!