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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).
Liberty Seated, 1837-1859 Liberty Seated (with arrows), 1853-1855 Liberty Seated (with legend, new reverse), 1860-1873 Dimes: Photo Draped Bust, 1796-1807
The Seated Liberty dollar was a dollar coin struck by the ... making silver coins worth more as bullion than as currency. ... striking 20,000 dollars in 1859, a year ...
Liberty Cap large cent, 1793–1796 (Copper) Year Mint Mintage Comments 1793 ... 1859 (Cupronickel) Year Mint Mintage Comments 1859 (P) 36,400,000 (P) 800
1940 50C (Regular Strike) Walking Liberty Half Dollars — Auction Record: $29,375 1940 10C, FB (Regular Strike) Mercury Dimes — Auction Record: $35,250 1940-D 25C (Regular Strike) Washington ...
In early 1875, Congress passed the Specie Redemption Act, allowing the Treasury to pay out silver coins in exchange for paper currency. That act, combined with a drop in the price of silver, caused hoarded or exported silver coins to reappear in commerce within the United States. [28] Many trade dollars were reimported, especially to California ...
All 1859 cents and some from 1860 have the cutoff of Liberty's bust on the obverse end with a point; most 1860 cents and all later issues have it rounded. [19] Tens of millions of Flying Eagle cents had been issued in exchange for the old American coppers and small Spanish silver.
The Type 2 and 3 gold dollars depict Liberty as a Native American princess, with a fanciful feathered headdress not resembling any worn by any Indian tribe. This image is an inexact copy of the design Longacre had made for the three-dollar piece, and is one of a number of versions of Liberty that Longacre created based on the Venus Accroupie or ...