1850 Liberty Seated Silver Dollar. OC-1. Top 30 Variety. Rarity-3. Repunched Date. MS-62 PL (ICG). A remarkably vivid, exceptionally attractive example of this eagerly sought key date Liberty Seated dollar issue. The viewer is immediately treated to halos of peripheral cobalt blue, champagne-gold and olive. The centers are more reserved in soft pearl gray patina. The coveted PL designation from ICG is fully justified for, at direct lighting angles, the surfaces readily reveal strong reflectivity in the fields. The design elements are satiny in texture and fully struck, the in hand appearance pleasingly smooth in the absence of sizable handling marks.<p>Long recognized as one of the more elusive issues in the Liberty Seated silver dollar series, just 7,500 circulation strikes of the 1850 were made. This is the lowest yearly output from either the Philadelphia or New Orleans mints since the introduction of the Liberty Seated design in 1840. Specialists Dick Osburn and Brian Cushing (2018) estimate that just 300 examples remain in all grades. While the persistent buyer can usually obtain a VF, EF or even AU example, few Mint State coins survived the tumultuous economic times of the decade leading up to the outbreak of the Civil War. Elusive in all Uncirculated grades, an attractive high grade 1850 silver dollar such as that offered here will have advanced collectors competing vigorously at auction.<p><p>
