Please post your Seated Liberty images.

I have a few counterfeit Seated. What should / can I do with them?

I took them to a local coin shop and they confirmed the coins were not authentic by running a magnet over them.

On a positive note - I caught my daughter (now 7) inspecting one of them with my loupe and says to me, "Daddy, this one has a nick"

Here is the highest grade Liberty Seated coin I own, an 1838 No Stars half dime. The grade is MS-66.

Freshly back from PCGS grading, came in this morning's mail...very psyched

A tough coin in high grade, with a mere 4 examples graded finer at PCGS.

For my 1869 Mint Set (registry set)

<< <i>MDG - Congrats on the results from our hosts. Are those striations typical of the date?. >>



I don't know if they are typical, I would guess not, but I have seen them before. As long as they are "mint made" and not distracting, they don't detract from the grade. In this instance the coin is so tiny but made to look gigantic in a photo, in-hand the striations are barely noticeable but are very cool. They add "character" to a coin that I'm sure has an interesting story. The coin's in hand look is just spectacular/stunning dripping with luster.

I now have to find it's twin P mint, and I can move on to dimes for my 1869 set

Thanks, Flatwoods. It's definitely a favorite of mine as well. One of those coins that a numerical upgrade might not really be an upgrade. Its just that nice.
Paesan

Jim

Nothing overly exciting - just a couple of O mints from my raw circulated type set:

I like them very much.

axial-lit images of a little half dime:

A very pretty 62-s, nice strike for the issue.

Vern, axial lighting brings out the colors with an intensity that you normally see with rotating the coin around under the light. However, it brings out any surface imperfections with brutal clarity, and doesn't work with slabbed coins due to reflection.

kaz - Thanks.

breakdown - That's a beauty, thanks for posting.

Pics for this AM, another from Paesan's Stash, PC50:

Pics for this AM, a beauty from the Stash, PC58:

Coupleof nice ones this morning.

MDG - Really like that light even color, and a CC no less. Thanks for posting.

Pics for this AM, a raw coin I sold 3-4 years ago. Wish I hadn't.

I have got to believe I am the owner of the world's nicest 1877-CC 25C in a PCGS MS62 holder. I never sent it in for regrading because it is just sitting in my collection, but when I had sent it into CAC a while ago it was to "get a sticker" not to see "if" it would get a sticker

I'm thinking on it's inaugural trip to PCGS they probably looked at it quickly and thought the mark on the reverse is scratch, but it is actually very clear die polish and super shiny, so it looks black in the photo.

Anyhow, it is one of the nicest eye appealing coins in hand...oozing with luster.

P53

Freddy, that's a gorgeous 55-S quarter! Right up my alley. Wish I could see that one in hand!

Nic, great look on that half dime too! Wow!

Paesan

You guys are killing me with the daily pictures...I'm impulsive and have the urge to share

But in a couple weeks I'm going to start running out of quality material to share...so I guess I need to buy some more material

MDG - Is that graffiti on the reverse of that dime? Perhaps tooled out a bit? I can't quite tell from the images.

Andy, you always make me chuckle...I totally enjoy the consistency with which you bust my chops (more than a decade now), and overall the quality of your sarcasm has consistently been almost as good as my wife's

Actually it's a picture of something that's the size of a shirt button blown up to be as big as a dinner plate, at reduced resolution to fit into a PCGS allowable web browser frame, where you can see all the pleasing and less pleasing attributes of a coin at a straight 90 degree angle (e.g. no depth, not metal flow). In hand at a slight tilt it is easily identifiable as a break in luster from reeded edges of coins being in contact with one another, I know completely shocking that an MS63 seated liberty dime could possibly have contact marks

Pics for this AM, a PC61 from Paesan's Stash:

Beautiful half dime, Larry.

From my date set of Liberty Seated halves. (If anyone has any PCGS-graded spares that match the general look of this set please send me a PM - these things are tough, even the common dates)!

Edited: New Photobucket links.

Here is a partial year, not even a one year, type coin, an 1839 No Drapery half dollar. Some collectors say this is "common" and a "hoard coin," but that does not square up with the fact that it can sell for over $100,000 in Mint State. This one is not close to that, but it's a decent example. I bought this many years ago from JJ Teaparty when the late Bruce Longyear worked there. He thought enough it to say that would he would buy it back at any time.



This is a classic example of the EF-45 grade. It's now been over graded in an AU-58 holder, but that does not prevent it from being a prime coin for an advanced type collector. Most type collectors don't bother to get detailed enough in their sets to include it.