By Roger W. Burdette, special to CoinWeek ….. We like to assume that all coins with the current year’s date were delivered to the Treasurer (or Cashier, beginning in 1873) of the United States Mint in the same year. This implies that any coins delivered on January 2 of the next year all carried that […]
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Generations of Americans living through the second half of the 20th century had known only the Seated Liberty coinage. The motif was ubiquitous, entering circulation in 1837 and adorning the half dime, dime, twenty-cent piece, quarter dollar, half dollar, and silver dollar denominations. The half dime and twenty-cent piece came and went, but Seated Liberty […]
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By Blanchard and Company, Inc …… In 1854, United States Mint Chief Engraver James B. Longacre reached a milestone in his career. For the first time, he would choose the design for a piece of currency: in this case the three-dollar gold coin. Much of the currency up to that point favored designs that referenced […]
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