1871 Liberty Seated Silver Dollar. OC-13. Rarity-2. MS-62 (PCGS). Richly toned surfaces are dressed in dominant golden-copper that yields to a halo of even bolder steel-gray around the reverse periphery. Striking detail is universally sharp throughout the design, the surfaces lustrous and satiny with an impressively smooth appearance in hand. Most circulation strike 1871 silver dollars were exported and subsequently melted, although enough remained stateside to explain this issues common date status in the Liberty Seated series. In Mint State, however, this issue is far rarer than the 1859-O and 1860-O, which were represented in significant quantities in the Treasury Department silver dollar releases of 1962 to 1964. Q. David Bowers estimates that several hundred examples were included in bags of mixed date dollars. A find for proponents of richly toned Liberty Seated coinage, this handsome piece would also do well in a Mint State type set.<p><p>
