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Where is the mint mark on a Seated Liberty dollar?
Seated Liberty dollar
| Years of minting | 1840–1873 |
| Mint marks | O, S, CC. Located beneath eagle on reverse. Philadelphia Mint specimens lack a mint mark. |
| Obverse | |
|---|---|
| Design | Liberty seated |
| Designer | Christian Gobrecht |
How do you tell if a coin is silver or clad?
The best way to determine if your coins are silver is to view the edge of the coin. If the coin has a solid silver stripe, then you can feel confident that it’s silver. If you can see a copper stripe, then the coin is clad. A more subdued silver stripe with faint traces of copper could mean that the coin is 40% silver.
How do you authenticate silver coins?
The bleach test is very simple: You just expose your coin to a drop of bleach (i.e., Clorox). Real silver tarnishes very quickly, which means it turns black when exposed to oxidizing chemicals. The acid test requires an acid testing kit.
Is there any silver in a 1864 Liberty Seated dollar?
Coin Info. 1864 Liberty Seated dollars are enjoyed by collectors of 19th-century type silver coins and are generally regarded as historic numismatic relics. While these coins do contain nearly an ounce of silver, they really shouldn’t be collected strictly as silver bullion, for doing such mitigates their importance as rare U.S. coins.
What to look for on a fake silver dollar?
The strike of the coin, the reeding, the edge, raised bumps in the fields, depressions, irregular lettering and other details are what we are going to want to look for on any suspicious coin.
How can you tell if a dollar coin is a counterfeit?
Counterfeiters are using much less sophisticated machinery and therefore it shows. = If we look at the hair above the date, just along the neckline, on the 1893-O, we can clearly see it is soft and mushy and not in high relief. If we look at the 1904-O, the genuine coin, we can clearly see the detail of the hair in the same place.
When was the Liberty Seated Silver Dollar made?
Liberty Seated silver dollars circulated primarily during the 1840s and 1850s. By the 1860s, Liberty Seated dollars circulated mainly in the foreign trade channels – a common fate for many U.S. silver dollars made during the 19th century. This was due to the silver content of these coins.