Seated Liberty Coins Obverse

Types of Seated Liberty Coins

• Seated Liberty Dollars
• Seated Liberty Half Dollars
• Seated Liberty Quarters
• Seated Liberty Dimes
• Seated Liberty Half Dimes

Ways to Collect Seated Liberty Coins

One cool way to collect Seated Liberty coins is to collect a Seated Liberty type set collection.  A Seated Liberty type set collection could include a higher grade mint state common date coin from each of these Seated Liberty coin types.  There for you could buy a common date Seated Liberty dollar, Seated Liberty half dollar, Seated Liberty quarter dollar, Seated Liberty dime and Seated Liberty half dime.  This would be one of the cheaper ways to collect Seated Liberty mint state coins.  If your budget is more limited, you could collect a circulated Seated Liberty type set collection.

Another cool way to collect Seated Liberty coins is to pick one type of Seated Liberty coin and collect that entire set.  I really like the idea of collecting Seated Liberty quarters.  These are not as expensive as the Seated Liberty dollars and half dollars, but there is still a nice size coin to collect.

If you want to go all out, you could try to collect all of the Seated Liberty coins in each coin type.  You better have a pretty big wallet though.  You would certainly cut the cost buy collecting lower grade circulated coins.

Another interesting way to collect Seated Liberty coins is to collect interesting varieties and Seated Liberty coin errors.  Pick up a Cherrypickers guide (Cherrypickers’ Guide to Rare Die Varieties of United States Coins: Half Dimes Through Dollars, Gold, and Commemoratives (Official Whitman Guidebook)) and study the interesting varieties and then cherrypick them when you uncover hidden gems.

Opportunities for Investing In Seated Liberty Coins

The Seated Liberty coins are primarily collected by experienced coin collectors.  Because of this, there tends to be more price stability in the Seated Liberty coin market than say the Morgan dollar coin market.

As I have discussed before, investing in key date coins is one of the best ways to invest in coins.  Key date Seated Liberty coins typically go up in value at a great rate than common date coins.  This is an issue of supply in demand.  If investor demand for Seated Liberty coins goes up, of course the coins in the least supply (the key date coins) will go up in price the most.

Do you like collecting in Seated Liberty coins?  Do you think investing in Seated Liberty coins is a good idea?  Please leave your thoughts in the comments below.