1854 Liberty Seated Silver Dollar. Restrike. OC-P3. Rarity-7-. Blundered Date. Proof-62 (PCGS).A lovely and desirable example of this Blundered Date variety with extraordinary eye appeal for the assigned grade. The peach and olive-grey patina reveals a radiant gold and powder-blue iridescence at a tilt. The surfaces are overall smooth, showing just a few faint hairlines under magnification but remaining free from any notable abrasions. The trace of an errant 4 digit is clearly visible at the flag of the 5, allowing ready attribution of this obverse die. Well struck and lightly reflective in the fields. pAs a group, early proof Seated dollars dated 1840 to 1857 are very scarce to rare coins that have long been reserved for inclusion in the finest numismatic cabinets. All of these issues have unknown, limited mintages, most were produced from only a few die marriages and all were struck for official presentation purposes or distribution to a small number of contemporary collectors living in the Northeast United States. pThe Proof 1854 dollar has been long recognized as a particularly elusive issue, but it is only through the recent research of Dick Orburn and Brian Cushing that the nature of this issue has truly been explored. Restrikes comprise the majority of known Proof 1854 dollars, as just one confirmed Original Proof (OC-P1) has been traced. Two distinct Restrike die marriage have been discovered, with the present OC-P3 variety being the rarer of the two with just about 10 survivors estimated.
