Pre-Civil War O Mint Half Dollar - Seated Liberty

With so any different pieces of United States coinage, it is easy to see how some of the best kept secrets in coin collecting ‘fall through the cracks’ so to speak.

While in Baltimore for the Whitman Coin Expo, we got lucky enough to come across several FULL ROLLS of those well-kept collector secrets – specifically the Seated Liberty Half Dollars!

But wait – it gets even better! The full rolls we found were all from the United States’ only ‘Southern Mint’ – New Orleans! That makes these Seated Liberty Half Dollars truly rare collecting secrets!

The New Orleans Mint has a very rich history, which first began in 1835 when the Federal Government was facing a shortage in circulating coinage. The Mint operated continuously from 1838 until January 26, 1861, when the state of Louisiana seceded from the United States of America. This ‘New’ Government let all federal employees remain, but only if they became employees of the state and not the federal government...the very next month, March, saw Louisiana join the Confederate Government and the Mint changed sides once more. The following year in April of 1862, the Union had retaken New Orleans and the Mint was finally back where it started -- in the control of the United States of America’s Federal Government.

The Seated Liberty Half Dollars from the New Orleans Mint are a true collecting rarity – if you add up every single year of issue at the ‘Southern Mint’ you get a total of just about 49,000,000 Seated Liberty Half Dollars!

Compare that to the more than 429,000,000 Kennedy Half Dollars struck in 1964 alone!

These New Orleans Seated Liberty Half Dollars are almost 9-times rarer than just the 1964 Kennedy!

Each of our Seated Liberty Half Dollars are in collector’s quality circulated condition from the New Orleans Mint from before the Civil War (1838 to 1860) with the dates being our choice.

But hurry, with just a few rolls available, these are sure to disappear fast!