VIDEO: LIBERTY SEATED HALF DOLLARS

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The E-Sylum: Volume 27, Number 39, September 29, 2024, Article 9

VIDEO: LIBERTY SEATED HALF DOLLARS

The David Lisot Video Library on the Newman Numismatic Portal can be found at:
https://nnp.wustl.edu/library/multimediadetail/522852

We highlight one of his videos each week in The E-Sylum. Here's one from 2009 with Bill Cowburn seaking about Liberty Seated Half Dollars. -Editor

1839-O Liberty Seated Half Dollar obverse

Pennsylvania collector, Bill Cowburn, specializes in collecting the Liberty Seated half dollars series. He explains why the coins are so interesting to collect and why you should not to be intimidated by some of the rare dates. In this video he shares and shows:

Which coins make the best type coin
Motto vs. no motto
Types and 8 subtypes
Why the "arrows & rays" were added in 1853
How the 'rays' were moved in 1854
The "arrows" that were added again in 1873 to designate another weight change
Differences in lettering and what may have caused it
Repunched dates
Other varieties - how to recognize them including cracks, cuds, different sized mintmarks and more

Speaker(s): Bill Cowburn.

To watch the complete video, see:
Liberty Seated Half Dollars of 1839-91 (https://youtu.be/hiTRvPiBR74)

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Wayne Homren, Editor

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