The Seated Liberty portrait designs appeared on most regular-issue silver United States coinage from 1836 through 1891. The denominations which featured...
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in 1986 Liberty (goddess) United States Seated Liberty coinage, 1836 various denominations Barber coinage, 1892 various denominations Liberty coins with...
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The Seated Liberty dollar was a dollar coin struck by the United States Mint from 1840 to 1873 and designed by its chief engraver, Christian Gobrecht...
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being minted. United States Seated Liberty coinage was the silver coin design minted in the mid-to-late 19th century. It was the first seated-portrait U...
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Capped Bust 1809–1837 Seated Liberty 1837–1891 Barber 1892–1916 Winged Liberty Head (Mercury) 1916–1945 Roosevelt 1946–present The Coinage Act of 1792, passed...
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Half dime (category Goddess of Liberty on coins)
amount of 84,828,478 coins struck for circulation. See also United States Seated Liberty coinage. In 1978 a coin collector surprised the coin collecting community...
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Bust (Small Size), No Motto 1831–1838 Seated Liberty 1838–1891 Seated Liberty, No Motto 1838–1865 Seated Liberty, With Motto 1866–1891 Barber 1892–1916...
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United States coinage type set is a visual collection of each of the types of coins produced by the US Mints. A "Type set" collection is enjoyed by some...
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late-19th-century U.S. silver coins. These are broadly classified as United States Seated Liberty coinage. Residents in Dedham, Massachusetts awoke one October morning...
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The Barber coinage consists of a dime, quarter, and half dollar designed by United States Bureau of the Mint Chief Engraver Charles E. Barber. They were...
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(died 1856) Christian Gobrecht, engraver, designer of the United States Seated Liberty coinage (died 1844) January 6 – Haym Salomon, Jewish financier of...
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The Coinage Act of 1792 (also known as the Mint Act; officially: An act establishing a mint, and regulating the Coins of the United States), passed by...
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circulating U.S. coinage. Many earlier circulating coins had featured images of women via allegorical figures such as Peace or Liberty; Spain's Queen Isabella...
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replaced by the Liberty Head nickel. The Buffalo nickel was introduced in 1913 as part of a drive to increase the beauty of American coinage. The nickel is...
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correspondence of the Philadelphia Mint box 39 "Treatise on coinage of The United States Branch Mints " published 1893/ author Augustus Heaton [1] Proof-63...
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carrying a cap of liberty on a pole. In other images, she took the seated form already very familiar from the British copper coinage, where Britannia had...
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Exonumia (section United States)
deliberately bent. Carved Potty coins: usually United States Seated Liberty coinage carved to show lady Liberty sitting on a chamber pot. Hobo nickels: Initially...
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"Chief Engravers of the United States Mint - CoinFactsWiki". Frost, John (Summer 2018). "In Search of the Forgotten Liberty Seated Engraver William Barber"...
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Hobo nickel (category Five-cent coins of the United States)
the "potty coin", engraved on United States Seated Liberty coinage (half dime through trade dollar) and modifying Liberty into a figure sitting on a chamber...
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proposal, deeming it too similar to the Seated Liberty design which was then on all domestic silver coinage, and so the new coin would too closely resemble...
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the United States Mint and its Coinage. Atlanta, GA: Whitman Publishing. ISBN 0-7948-1972-9. Taxay, Don (1983) [1966]. The U.S. Mint and Coinage. New...
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– Christian Gobrecht, American engraver, designer of the United States Seated Liberty coinage (d. 1844) December 26 – Étienne Constantin de Gerlache, 1st...
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Phrygian cap (redirect from Cap of liberty)
goddess with a helmet seated on a globe holding in a right hand a furled U.S. flag topped by the liberty cap. Starting in 1793, U.S. coinage frequently showed...
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Thomas Sully (category British emigrants to the United States)
notable alumni from the Societies. The obverse design of the United States Seated Liberty coinage, which began with the Gobrecht dollar in 1836 and lasted...
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Retrieved 2024-11-22. "Seated Liberty Half Dollar Mintages - USA Coin Book". USA Coin Book. Retrieved 2024-11-22. "1839 Seated Liberty Half Dollar (No Drapery)...
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Morgan dollar (category Goddess of Liberty on coins)
passage of the Coinage Act of 1873, which ended the free coining of silver and the production of the previous design, the Seated Liberty dollar. It contained...
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Mercury dime (redirect from Liberty dime)
The introduction had followed a design competition to replace the Seated Liberty coinage, which had been struck since the 1830s. The Mint had offered only...
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Gobrecht dollar (category Goddess of Liberty on coins)
similarity between Patterson's Seated Liberty concept and designs already in use on British copper coinage: "Liberty thus emerged as a refurbished Britannia...
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colloquially buck) is the official currency of the United States and several other countries. The Coinage Act of 1792 introduced the U.S. dollar at par with...
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Christian Gobrecht (category United States Mint engravers)
Chief Engraver of the United States Mint from 1840 until his death in 1844. He was responsible for designing the famous "Seated Liberty" designs, which were...
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