Liberty Seated coinage variety collecting is becoming well established with a host of popular varieties command ing significant premiums in the market place. For Liberty Seated quarters, there are many challenging varieties including the 1842-O Small Date, 1861 Type II Obverse/Type I Reverse and of course, the 1854-O Huge O variety being well known and bringing a substantial premium though not being rare.

The challenge for variety collectors is having an appropriate pricing guide by which to judge fair value of Top 25 Varieties purchases or resale to other collectors. The Top 25 Liberty Seated Quarter varieties pricing guide has been assembled by variety experts in the Liberty Seated Collectors Club. Greg Johnson is the well known authority on Seated quarter after publishing the Top 25 Varieties in the #111 Gobrecht Issue. Greg also writes the monthly Seated Quarter of Month column in the LSCC's E-Gobrecht electronic newsletter. Gerry Fortin is the well known authority for Liberty Seated Dime varieties and established the Top 100 Dime Varieties dating back to 2002. Today the Top 100 varieties are activity sought after by a host of variety collectors. Gerry established a Top 100 Varieties Pricing Guide to bring about a realistic market place for trading or selling these interesting dime varieties.

Please remember that listed prices are for nice problem free original coins rather than examples that have been cleaned or have other problems. For problem coins, one should typically downgrade pricing by one full grading increment.

Base pricing from PCGS Pricing Guide

Premiums are based on estimated Top 25 Varieties rarity and current understanding of dealer pricing and recent transactions

Click on the underlined date to see Greg Johnson's Quarter of Month article for each Top 25 variety (when available)

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