New article by me in Gobrecht Journal of this month: Collecting Seated Half Dollars By Date

Dennis88

Hi all,

The July issue of the Gobrecht Journal, the official publication of the Liberty Seated Collectors Club, includes an article written by me titled "Collecting Seated Half Dollars By Date". It focuses on the possibility of completing the Seated Half Dollar date set by date only, thus leaving out some of the extremely rare and expensive branch mints. Suggestions are given for possible inclusions of branch mint issues in such a set.

It is printed on pages 3 to 10 and illustrated with pictures of varies coins and photographs of both the San Francisco and Carson City Mints which struck seated half dollars, taken by myself during my first visit to the United States in June of last year (I live in Europe and was born and raised here). If you are not (yet) a member of the LSCC please send me an email at eagle88@gmail.com">qeagle88@gmail.com and I will send you a PDF file with a scan of the article tomorrow. I do encourage all of you with even a modest interest in Liberty Seated coinage to become a member of the club. The journal provides valuable information about all topics of these fascinating 19th century coins which helped to build America.

More information on the LSCC can be found here.

As usual, comments are welcome and greatly appreciated.

Dennis Hengeveld
eagle88@gmail.com">qeagle88@gmail.com

NumisOxide

Sounds like a great article Dennis!

Dennis88

I think I have messed up everything. Can any of the admins help? I can't edit my post anylonger

Dennis

Dennis88

Ok, so I know the first post is messed up. But is really almost nobody interested?



Dennis

Coinosaurus

Another fine article from Dennis88. Look forward to seeing you next week.

lathmach

You wrote a good article, Dennis. Way to go.
Keep it up.
You should put something about it on the Seated Forum.

Ray

seatedcollector

i believe there is a small (but dedicated) following to seated coins, not many people here interested in anything that wont slab MS70+ regardless, a date set of LSH's will be fun, particularly if you already have the late 80's tough dates. im in the process of doing something similar with the quarters, a date set is obviously much easier on the wallet than a complete set, and you can always plant a scarce branch mint or variety in the set,

tjkillian

Very nice, I look forward to reading in the Gobrect Journal.

I am, however, trying to collect by date/mint/marriage/die state all of the halves.

The 1878-S is a tough one to do by die state.

firstmint

Well written and very interesting to read.

HoledandCreative

Thanks for the thread.

toyonakataro

It was a great article to read. It made me more interested in this series.