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The basic obverse design of the Seated Liberty coinage consisted of the figure of Liberty clad in a flowing dress and seated upon a rock. [3] In her left hand, she holds a Liberty pole surmounted by a Phrygian cap, [2] which had been a pre-eminent symbol of freedom during the movement of Neoclassicism (and traces its roots back to Ancient Greece and Rome).
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. It was the last silver coin of that denomination to be struck before passage of the Coinage Act of 1873 , which temporarily ended production of the silver dollar for American commerce.
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.S. coin, now-scarce Seated Liberty Dollar, and debuted in 1836. The seated liberty dime and seated liberty half dime followed the next year in 1837 and the seated liberty quarter and seated liberty half ...
View history; Tools. Tools. move to ... Download as PDF; Printable version ... Seated Liberty; Stella, a $4 coin minted in both "flowing hair" and "coiled hair ...
Seated Liberty 1838–1891 Seated Liberty, No Motto 1838–1865 [8] Seated Liberty, With Motto 1866–1891 [9] Barber 1892–1916 [10] Isabella quarter commemorative 1893; Standing Liberty 1916–1930 [11] Standing Liberty (Type 1) 1916–1917 (featured an image of Liberty with one of her breasts exposed [12]) Standing Liberty (Type 2 or Type ...
Standing Liberty quarter Below are the mintage figures for the United States quarter up to 1930, before the Washington quarter design was introduced. The following mint marks indicate which mint the coin was made at (parentheses indicate a lack of a mint mark):
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An 1858 Seated Liberty half dollar. For much of the second half of the 19th century, most U.S. silver coins bore a design of a seated Liberty. This design had been created by Christian Gobrecht, an engraver at the United States Mint in Philadelphia, after a sketch by artist Thomas Sully, and introduced to U.S. coins in the late 1830s.