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2. United States Seated Liberty coinage - Wikipedia

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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).

3. Seated Liberty dollar - Wikipedia

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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.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.

4. Numismatic history of the United States - Wikipedia

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   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 ...

5. Dime (United States coin) - Wikipedia

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   Another variety is the 1838–40 dime minted with no drapery underneath the left elbow of Liberty. [3] 1874 cc Seated Liberty dime, with arrows. Arrows at the date in 1853 and 1873 indicated changes made in the coin's mass (from 2.67 grams to 2.49 grams in 1853, then to 2.50 grams in 1873).

6. Quarter (United States coin) - Wikipedia

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   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 ...

7. Gobrecht dollar - Wikipedia

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   Thomas Sully created a depiction of Liberty seated that would form the basis for the obverse of the Gobrecht dollar. In a letter dated August 1, 1835, Patterson proposed that Sully create a Seated Liberty figure for the obverse, suggesting that the "figure be in a sitting posture—sitting, for example, on a rock."