1858-S Seated Liberty Half dollar for the Registry Set.
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Just so you won't think that all I'm collecting these days are raw Washingtons, 
one of the sets I've been trying to put together for the last few years has been a business strike 1858 set. There are 29 potential slots in the set. The set I'm building will never be "complete" as there are a couple of gold coins that are prohibitively priced for me. There are also a fair amount of branch mint coins that get rather pricey once you get above a VF. So, the way I've decided to build the set is to set a top dollar value I'm willing to spend for denominations across the board, and then within that buy a coin that is appealing to me. That means that the coin quality within the set will range quite a bit, from roughly F15 to MS65. Here is the 1858-S SL half dollar for the set. It is graded MS61. The S mint half is BY FAR the rarest of the 1858 halves. Also, once you get into UNC grades even that small population drops way off. PCGS has graded 15 MS60 or higher, and NGC has graded 13 MS60 or higher. This one is graded NGC MS61. The images are by Bob Campbell, and I think he has done an excellent job. In the images there is some haze by Liberty's bust and midsection, that is caused by scratching on the slab.
one of the sets I've been trying to put together for the last few years has been a business strike 1858 set. There are 29 potential slots in the set. The set I'm building will never be "complete" as there are a couple of gold coins that are prohibitively priced for me. There are also a fair amount of branch mint coins that get rather pricey once you get above a VF. So, the way I've decided to build the set is to set a top dollar value I'm willing to spend for denominations across the board, and then within that buy a coin that is appealing to me. That means that the coin quality within the set will range quite a bit, from roughly F15 to MS65. Here is the 1858-S SL half dollar for the set. It is graded MS61. The S mint half is BY FAR the rarest of the 1858 halves. Also, once you get into UNC grades even that small population drops way off. PCGS has graded 15 MS60 or higher, and NGC has graded 13 MS60 or higher. This one is graded NGC MS61. The images are by Bob Campbell, and I think he has done an excellent job. In the images there is some haze by Liberty's bust and midsection, that is caused by scratching on the slab. 0
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That's a very wholesome looking 1858-S. Those big "S" mint marked seated halves in unc are impressive coins, And none of them are easy. There is no shortage of cleaned and abused 58-s halves out there.
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