Goldberg Coins and Collectibles

Sale 5

The Dr. Jon Kardatzke Coin Collection, Parts 2 and 3

Liberty Seated Half Dollars

Lot	Photo	Description	Realized
Lot 456		1839 Liberty Seated Half Dollar, with drapery. VF-25. Medium steel-gray in color and original. View details	Realized $81
Lot 457		1840 Liberty Seated Half Dollar. Small letters. NGC graded MS-63. Quite a scarce early date in this series. The grade is right on the money. There's a group of abrasions just above the denomination, but otherwise this coin is unusually pleasing. Attractively toned a light silvery gray, evenly distributed, and fairly well struck. View details	Realized $782
Lot 458		1840 Liberty Seated Half Dollar. Small letters. VF-30. A few light scratches above the date, and with a few edge knocks. Decent overall. View details	Realized $75
Lot 459		1843 to 1856 Liberty Seated Half Dollars (10 pieces). Good-4 to Very Good 8. An interesting lot of Seated half dollars, most are original but a few are cleaned. Lot of 10 coins. View details	Realized $144
Lot 460		1848-O Liberty Seated Half Dollar. MS-60. Light hairlines from an old cleaning, but the surfaces are largely free from abuse and the color is a pleasing silvery gold pastel look. Sharply struck overall, with some curious long diebreaks on reverse. Pleasant enough for the grade. View details	Unsold
Lot 461		1849-O Liberty Seated Half Dollar. AU-55. Russet gold color and well struck. Nice for an AU! View details	Realized $345
Lot 462		1853-O Liberty Seated Half Dollar. Arrows and rays. AU-55. Light silvery colored surfaces, nicely struck. A classic representing the furious days of fluctuations in the values and ratios between gold, silver and "currency" in the emerging banking system. A great collector's coin. View details	Realized $661
Lot 463		1857 Liberty Seated Half Dollar. PCGS graded MS-65. Some tiny fritzies on the obverse, here and there, but this is a Gem Unc. with an above-average strike and good color. The obverse is mostly bright silver with some pale greenish blue hues. The reverse exhibits evenly distributed, light golden blue iridescence. View details	Realized $4,830
Lot 464		1858-S Liberty Seated Half Dollar. AU-55. Dark gray with a couple of minor abrasions on the obverse. Sharply struck and scarce so nice. View details	Realized $184
Lot 465		1859-O Liberty Seated Half Dollar. AU-55. Dark gray but well struck. Remarkably clean surfaces. View details	Realized $138
Lot 466		1861 Liberty Seated Half Dollar. EF-40. A coin with some luster and a good strike, but there are some scratches right beside Liberty's raised arm, a couple of field scratches and a couple of gouges. It's really an AU but we've net-graded it. View details	Realized $52
Lot 467		1861-O Liberty Seated Half Dollar. EF-45. Bluish gray (probably induced) toning, decent strike, some luster in evidence. View details	Realized $75
Lot 468		1861-O Liberty Seated Half Dollar. EF-45. Exceptionally pleasant for the grade. Medium gray toning. View details	Realized $132
Lot 469		1870 Liberty Seated Half Dollar. AU-50. Light hairlines on grayish blue surfaces, some luster peeking through the color. View details	Realized $92
Lot 470		1873 Liberty Seated Half Dollar. No arrows, closed 3. Proof 60. Rose gold toning on both sides, but the fields are minutely hairlined. Excellent contrast between the deep watery fields and the frosted devices. Only 600 proofs struck. View details	Realized $345
Lot 471		1875 Liberty Seated Half Dollar. MS-60. Semi-prooflike fields and very well struck. Light silvery white surfaces, flashy and appealing. Somebody gonna love this one! View details	Unsold
Lot 472		1876-CC Liberty Seated Half Dollar. EF-40. Dark original toning and choice for the grade. With a small die lump on the upper curve of the R in AMERICA and machine doubling on some of the reverse peripheral lettering. Centennial "CC" date. View details	Realized $115
Lot 473		1879 Liberty Seated Half Dollar. PCGS graded MS-65. An unusually flashy Gem BU, with both sides outlined in a purplish blue iridescent toning that looks like something off a painter's palette. Boldly struck, immaculate, and stunning in its eye appeal. Of the 4,800 original business strikes (coins made for commerce, not for collecting) of this year, here is one of the very best of the survivors. Bid for it as if it were a cultural treasure--for, in fact, it is!. View details	Realized $2,875
Lot 474		1880 Liberty Seated Half Dollar. NGC graded Proof 66. Some subtle flaws on Liberty, but the color and overall quality here is excellent. Lilac gray on the reverse, Liberty mostly white and surrounded by lilac and gold iridescent toning, very light, very pretty. We can't find any hairlines. View details	Realized $4,600
Lot 475		1882 Liberty Seated Half Dollar. Proof 55. Low-mintage date and expensive in MS, so here's a welcomed alternative--a pleasing, slightly impaired Proof. Hairlines obscure the mirrors, but plenty of detail here! View details	Realized $316
Lot 476		1885 Liberty Seated Half Dollar. PCGS graded Proof 67. Pale golden lilac and blue iridescent toning lends extra visual appeal to this Superb Gem Proof half dollar, one of the lower mintage dates of the series--just 5,200 were made for commerce, and an additional 930 Proofs, of which this one must be among the finest. It's the only 67 graded by PCGS, with none better. View details	Realized $8,050
Lot 477		Liberty Seated Half Dollar group. The following dates and grades are included: 1857 VF-20; 1858-O F-15; 1860-O damaged (perhaps a Confederate button with the reverse showing solder at the center); 1861 G-4; 1862-S whizzed VF-30; 1863-S F-12; 1865-S EF-40 cleaned; 1868-S G-4; 1871 F-12 and 1871-S VG-8. Lot of 10 coins. View details	Realized $253
Lot 478		Liberty Seated Half Dollar mixed lot. The following dates are included: 1872 EF-40 scratched; 1873 Arrows, AG-3; 1875 F-12 scratched; 1875-S F-12 scratched; 1875-S G-4; 1876 damaged by dents; 1876 G-4; 1877 VG-10; 1878 G-4 and 1891 VF-25. Lot of 9 coins. View details	Realized $207