Are Die Marriages Relevant To Seated Liberty Dollars?

Depends on your collecting goals.

If you want a single example for a type set then die marriages do not really matter. If you are looking to expand into the Seated dollar series then they absolutely matter.

There's the "in between" category: a date set.
Die marriages do not matter as much there.
Common varieties would suffice.

Then there's the "in between" category: a full date/mintmark set.
Then die marriages should be considered.
You'd be spending a LOT of money on completing the set so you might prefer the common die marriages.

And take into consideration grade?

Well, just for kicks, I attempted an analysis of the markers on my coin to see if they were identifiable. I think I might have the OC-4, which is obverse 3, reverse B.

http://seateddollarvarieties.com/1872-OC4.shtml

Obverse 3 seems best identified by the die line under the foot of Liberty. Reverse B is pretty straightforward, with a big lump next to the T and also two die chips on the lower left foot of T (not mentioned in the guide, but clearly visible, and not appearing on reverse A,C,D).

I am less confident on the line from the 1 to the shield. Honestly, the way some of the identification lines are drawn seems really arbitrary, with considerable manual error.

Apparently the OC-4 has 775 estimated survivors and is R2, which I guess is nothing special.





http://seateddollarvarieties.com/1872.shtml