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Tonight's Ebay pop report for 1839-1849 Seated Halves.

DoubleEagle59DoubleEagle59 Posts: 8,402 ✭✭✭✭✭
You can tell I'm a little bored tonight, but seriously, I'm trying to learn all I can about seated halves and their rarities. I've looked at PCGS pop reports, but just tonight I thought of adding up the available coins on Ebay to see if there's any correlation.

Here's the results:

1839 13
1840 6
1840-o 2
1841 0
1841-o 1
1842 7
1842-o 2
1843 12
1843-o 4
1844 2
1844-o 4
1845 0
1845-o 2
1846 4
1846-o 6
1847 2
1847-o 5
1848 1
1848-o 3
1849 2
1849-o 2,

just to show how rare these dates are, there's eighty-seven (87) 1858 and 1858-o's on Ebay right now.
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  • determineddetermined Posts: 771 ✭✭✭
    Interesting. I am surprised at how many 1839 halves there are. I often see the same thing at shows. But I don't know why.
    I collect history in the form of coins.
  • BaleyBaley Posts: 22,663 ✭✭✭✭✭
    interesting.. some years have zero. maybe the 1839 coins were saved as the first of the type, accounting for the plurality

    was curious about another (shorter) series, the DB quarters, here are the ebay "pops"

    1796 (1)
    1804 (2)
    1805 (12)
    1806/5 (3)
    1806 (12)
    1807 (10)

    (I suppose we'll leave the Morgans or Lincolns to others... )

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  • BarberianBarberian Posts: 4,304 ✭✭✭✭✭
    1841 and 1845 SLH's are tough to find. They turn up on Ebay, but when I've bid on them, I've been blown out of the water for failing to appreciate how rare they really are.

    Edited to add that the PCGS Price Guide is useless for many of the scarser SLHs. I don't know why PCGS hasn't adjusted their prices to approximate the true market value for their slabbed coins. An 1863 PCGS XF40 recently sold for $210, 50% greater than their listed price for this date. This is typical for many semi-key SLH's.
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