1850-O

General Comments 1850-O is a semi-key date in the Liberty Seated Dollar series, part of the low mintage run of coins minted in the 1850’s. With a mintage ranking of 22nd out of 47 the collector would expect that it would be easy to locate, but that’s only partially true. 1850-O dollars are scarce, though a little more available than their P-mint counterparts in the early to mid-1850’s. Nice problem-free examples can be located, but patient searching is required. The good news is that coins of this date are in general more eye appealing than some of the other dates in this timeframe. Lower grade examples, VF or less, are much more available than Philadelphia coins from the 1850’s. Apparently coins in the New Orleans area circulated more than their Philadelphia counterparts. Mint state examples are very rare. Fewer than 30 examples have received a mint state grade at any level from the two major grading services, and a few of those examples are surely re-submissions. Choice examples are truly rare, virtually unobtainable. In MS63 or better this is one of the toughest dates in the entire series. The highest currently graded business strikes are five MS64 examples, one PCGS and four NGC. PCGS has graded four additional coins MS63. NGC has graded none at that level. Again a few of these choice coins are probably duplicates. Population statistics are as of January, 2019.		Mintage 40,000 Proof mintage None Mintage ranking 22nd Finest known MS64 Known obverse dies 1 Known reverse dies 1 Known die marriages 1 Most common die marriage OC-1/ R2 Rarest die marriage OC-1/ R2

With only a single die marriage the emission sequence isn't terribly interesting.

With only a single die pair for the year attribution is very easy.

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