Goldberg Coins and Collectibles

Sale 4

The Dr. Jon Kardatzke Coin and Currency Collection, Part 1

Liberty Seated Half Dollars

Lot	Photo	Description	Realized
Lot 1037		1856-O Liberty Seated Half Dollar. EF-40. Satiny yellow color, luster and sharp throughout. View details	Realized $52
Lot 1038		1856-S Liberty Seated Half Dollar. AU-50. Fully struck and well preserved. The fields show moderate to heavy hairlines, but these are starting to tone over. A rare date which is seldom encountered in high grade. View details	Realized $863
Lot 1039		A Group of 9 Liberty Seated Halves. 1856-S, 1858, 1859-0, 1870, 1872-S, 1875-CC, 1876-CC, 1877, 1877-S. The condition ranges from Good to Very Fine with most showing signs of excessive cleaning. View details	Realized $196
Lot 1040		1857 Liberty Seated Half Dollar. MS-60. Light handling marks and hairlines in the fields. Choice luster and lightly toned. View details	Realized $230
Lot 1041		1857-O Liberty Seated Half Dollar. AU-58. Sharp and well preserved. Abundant luster and lightly toned. View details	Realized $305
Lot 1042		1857-S Liberty Seated Half Dollar. EF-45. Minor handling marks, perfect for the grade in every way. View details	Realized $690
Lot 1043		1858 Liberty Seated Half Dollar. AU-58. Choice for the grade, with deep blue and green toning on both sides, and frosty luster beneath. View details	Realized $161
Lot 1044		1858-O Liberty Seated Half Dollar. MS-62. A handsome O-mint coin with a halo of bright iridescent blue toning on both sides, and silvery centers showing some golden iridescence. Almost no marks, but what looks like faint album friction on some obverse high points. Very choice-looking and a delight to look at with its bull's-eye toning. View details	Realized $345
Lot 1045		1858-O Liberty Seated Half Dollar. MS-60. Light hairlines, mostly untoned save for a bit around the periphery. Frosty and bright. View details	Realized $242
Lot 1046		1858-S Liberty Seated Half Dollar. MS-60. Dark somber gray in color and with a couple of minor tick marks on the obverse. View details	Realized $460
Lot 1047		1858-S Liberty Seated Half Dollar. EF-45. Minute handling marks, more so than one should expect for the grade. Untoned. View details	Realized $173
Lot 1048		A Group of "S" Mint Seated Halves. Includes 1858-S, 1859-S, 1860-S, 1861-S, 1862-S, 1865-S, 1866-S With Motto (2 pcs), 1867-S, 1968-S, 1869-S, 1870-S, 1871-S, 1875-S, 1876-S, 1877-S. Grades range from About Good to Very Fine. This lot should be inspected prior to bidding. View details	Realized $483
Lot 1049		1859 Liberty Seated Half Dollar. AU-55. Dark gray toning and lovely surfaces for the grade. View details	Realized $184
Lot 1050		1859 Liberty Seated Half Dollar. EF-45. Cleaned to a bright white and every little tick mark and hairline now show in the fields. One that could use a bit of toning. View details	Realized $104
Lot 1051		1859-O Liberty Seated Half Dollar. MS-60. Medium to dark gray in color and well struck. Minor hairlines in the fields. View details	Realized $173
Lot 1052		1859-O Liberty Seated Half Dollar. AU-50. Nice original color and typical surfaces for the grade. View details	Realized $121
Lot 1053		1859-S Liberty Seated Half Dollar. EF-40. Polished to a shiny brightness. Minor handling marks and untoned. View details	Realized $81
Lot 1054		1860 Liberty Seated Half Dollar. PCGS graded Proof 64. Of the even thousand Proofs made this year, not many could retain this piece's eye appeal. It is starkly "brilliant silver" in color and truly beautiful as such. Faint tiny hairlines show simply because there is nowhere for them to hide--not a hint of toning. The cataloguer has seen many thousands of Seated half dollars, some flawless, some spectacularly toned, but not a one of them delighted him more than this coin. Many of its brothers, of course, perished during the great war that spanned from 1861 to 1865. View details	Realized $2,645
Lot 1055		1860 Liberty Seated Half Dollar. AU-50. Natural gray in color and with an average strike, weakness on the obverse stars. Nice overall. View details	Realized $196
Lot 1056		1860-O Liberty Seated Half Dollar. AU-50. Choice original peripheral color and frosty. View details	Realized $150
Lot 1057		1860-S Liberty Seated Half Dollar. EF-45. Some minor toning stains on the reverse have been partially removed by cleaning. Hairlines. View details	Realized $127
Lot 1058		1861 Liberty Seated Half Dollar. AU-55. Frosty luster in the fields under the medium gray tones. Sharp. View details	Realized $196
Lot 1059		1861 Liberty Seated Half Dollar. EF-40. Nice save for a dig on the lower left obverse, hidden scratches near Liberty's left arm in the field, and a couple of other digs on both sides. Lustrous and lightly toned. View details	Realized $52
Lot 1060		1861-O Liberty Seated Half Dollar. AU-50. Dark phony blue and russet toning over lustrous fields. Softly struck, as are most. View details	Realized $104
Lot 1061		1861-S Liberty Seated Half Dollar. AU-58. Frosty and untoned, minor hairlines in the fields. Pleasant. View details	Realized $242
Lot 1062		1862 Liberty Seated Half Dollar. PCGS graded MS-66. About a dozen tiny bagmarks can be found on the obverse under magnification, but this coin is stunning and a solid Gem. It is fully struck everywhere but for the center of the 4th star. A delightful bluish gold circles both peripheries, with blazing silvery centers which flash cartwheel luster. Low mintage, and few survived as struck--1862 was a murderous year in the Civil War; coin collecting was almost nonexistent. View details	Realized $10,063
Lot 1063		1862 Liberty Seated Half Dollar. NGC graded Proof 64. Brownish gold toning hides some hairlines, especially on the reverse. Out of bright light, the seated portrait is cameoed. View details	Realized $1,265
Lot 1064		1862 Liberty Seated Half Dollar. AU-55. Nice surfaces, with moderate handling marks in the fields. Lustrous and bright. View details	Realized $288
Lot 1065		1862-S Liberty Seated Half Dollar. AU-58. Frosty and bright, well struck and nice. View details	Realized $213
Lot 1066		1863 Liberty Seated Half Dollar. PCGS graded Proof 62 Premium Quality. Very PQ in fact! Those experts down at the beach were mighty tough on this one. We've seen some recently made halves in 64 slabs that are no better. Surely not prettier! This coin has a vibrant film of iridescent golden blue toning atop deep mirrors and is really a visual treat. Back in 1863 nobody except war profiteers and the idle rich (not many of those boys) thought about collecting anything but their sanity and a new life. Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation legally terminated slavery, but had no effect in the Confederacy, of course. It flamed the war further, however. In May at Chancellorsville, Stonewall Jackson was killed but the South nonetheless inflicted one of its bloodiest victories on the Union. Then came Gettysburg in July, in which General Lee was defeated at a cost of 51,000 soldiers killed on both sides. In the middle of this horrific war, some Proof coins were saved--and it's a miracle any of them have come down to us. A few hairlines? They should not matter a hair by comparison with the history this beautiful coin--an enduring symbol of the Union of our states--has gone through. View details	Realized $506
Lot 1067		1863 Liberty Seated Half Dollar. AU-55. Frosty and bright, but there is a minor reverse scratch in the upper left field. View details	Realized $161
Lot 1068		1863 Liberty Seated Half Dollar. EF-40. Natural mottled iridescent toning. View details	Realized $86
Lot 1069		1863-S Liberty Seated Half Dollar. MS-60. Awash in vibrant white luster, untoned and sharp. View details	Realized $265
Lot 1070		1864 Liberty Seated Half Dollar. MS-62. Satiny luster, well struck and the fields show minor hairlines. View details	Realized $414
Lot 1071		1864-S Liberty Seated Half Dollar. MS-61. Nice for the grade, lightly toned with blue highlights on both sides. Lustrous. View details	Realized $483
Lot 1072		1865 Liberty Seated Half Dollar. AU-50. Lustrous, well struck and untoned. Really white. View details	Realized $259
Lot 1073		1865-S Liberty Seated Half Dollar. EF-45. Light hairlines in the fields. Satiny. View details	Realized $115
Lot 1074		Important 1866-S No Motto Half Dollar. MS-60. One of the rarities of the series, the 1866-S No Motto half dollar deserves its great price because of its extreme rarity. Only 60,000 were struck, most spent, lost, melted, eaten by dogs or lost by children. Here is one of the few mint state coins to have survived. Frosty luster abounds and the surfaces show only minimal hairlines or signs of handling. There is a scrape in the field above Liberty's arm, and the surfaces are untoned. A foremost rarity in high grade, and no doubt this is from some of the more famous collections that have been formed over the decades, as only a couple exist in mint state. Why not add it to your collection today? View details	Realized $2,760
Lot 1075		1866 Liberty Seated Half Dollar. With motto. MS-63. Satiny luster and well struck, only a few minor handling marks in the fields. A choice coin. View details	Realized $483
Lot 1076		1866-S Liberty Seated Half Dollar. With motto. AU-58. Frosty and bright, with a small disturbance in the field below the left wing of the eagle. View details	Realized $265
Lot 1077		1867 Liberty Seated Half Dollar. NGC graded Proof 66. It's interesting to see how time plays its wiles on coinage metals. In this case, it has cast upon the mirrored silver (alloyed and minted at the beginning of our Reconstruction period) a deep mauve, largely obscuring the design but valued, nonetheless, for its originality. This is doubtless a Gem example. Regarding the Population Reports, evidently only about 20% of the mintage of Proof half dollars of 1867 have survived in nice enough condition to warrant review by the certifiers. This one will appeal to a wide audience and is worth a strong bid. View details	Unsold
Lot 1078		1867 Liberty Seated Half Dollar. AU-55. Light handling marks in the fields, untoned. View details	Realized $253
Lot 1079		1867-S Liberty Seated Half Dollar. MS-62. Blazing luster that is enhanced by a delicate gold tone. Well struck. View details	Realized $690
Lot 1080		1868 Liberty Seated Half Dollar. Proof 61. Toned a mottled yellow and gray, only 600 proofs struck. View details	Realized $253
Lot 1081		1868 Liberty Seated Half Dollar. AU-50. Lightly toned, the surfaces show typical handling marks. View details	Realized $219
Lot 1082		1868 Liberty Seated Half Dollar. EF-40. Light toning around the borders with some light hairlines noticeable only under magnification. View details	Realized $132
Lot 1083		1868-S Liberty Seated Half Dollar. AU-58. Moderate hairlines, still lustrous and pleasing. Untoned. View details	Realized $196
Lot 1084		1869 Liberty Seated Half Dollar. MS-60. A delightful coin that does have some minor handling marks, but blazing luster and light peripheral toning. View details	Realized $242
Lot 1085		1869-S Liberty Seated Half Dollar. AU-58. Light rose toning and frosty. View details	Realized $242
Lot 1086		1870 Liberty Seated Half Dollar. Proof 55. Retoned to cover several handling marks and hairlines. Something has been removed below the I of UNITED and a series of marks is located in the field there. View details	Realized $230

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