1840 Liberty Seated Silver Dollar. MS-62 (PCGS).;This Mint State 1840 silver dollar is warmly toned in multicolored patina, with shades of mauve-gray, powder blue, lilac, olive-gold and orange-apricot. Well struck for an early Liberty Seated dollar, many of the obverse stars are full and much of the eagles plumage is crisp. The surfaces are overall very nice for the assigned grade and display a soft satin texture. The 1840 is the first silver dollar produced in quantity since 1804 (the coins struck in that year being from 1802- and 1803-dated dies). By modern Mint standards the mintage is extremely small, however, totaling just 61,005 pieces. Unlike many first-year issues in U.S. numismatics, the 1840 silver dollar was not widely saved by the contemporary public, and most of the coins saw considerable domestic circulation. The few Mint State examples known, as here, survived almost entirely as a matter of chance. This is a historically significant and conditionally rare coin that would do justice to the finest Liberty Seated dollar collection.