Liberty Seated Quarters

By Charles Morgan and Hubert Walker for CoinWeek Notes ..... The year 1855 was the last in which the United States Mint added arrows by...

By Charles Morgan and Hubert Walker for CoinWeek Notes ..... The discovery of gold in California and the western frontier in the late 1840s and...

By Charles Morgan and Hubert Walker for CoinWeek Notes ..... Across the United States, in cities and towns, Americans marked the Centennial of the Declaration of Independence with great fanfare. In...

The 109 lots of the Bruce S. Sherman Collection, Part II--a collection billed as “one of the most remarkable achievements in numismatics”--will be among...

By Charles Morgan and Hubert Walker for CoinWeek Notes .....   Congress addressed the imbalance between gold and silver values with the Act of February 21,...

By Charles Morgan and Hubert Walker for CoinWeek Notes .....   The glut of gold coming from California unbalanced the silver-to-gold ratio, resulting in higher silver...

By Charles Morgan and Hubert Walker for CoinWeek Notes ..... The Liberty Seated design had served the nation since the mid-1830s, appearing on nearly every...

By Charles Morgan and Hubert Walker for CoinWeek Notes .....   Consumers in San Francisco and along the West Coast were handling a rarity in the mid-1860s. As their counterparts in the east...

By Charles Morgan and Hubert Walker for CoinWeek Notes .....   Liberty Seated Quarters were produced from 1838 through 1891, when the design was replaced by...

By Charles Morgan and Hubert Walker for CoinWeek Notes .....   Through the Mint Act of February 21, 1853, the weights of fractional silver coins (half...

By Charles Morgan and Hubert Walker for CoinWeek Notes .....   Why this subtype is called the Liberty Seated Quarter, No Motto, Drapery requires some explanation. In...

By Charles Morgan and Hubert Walker for CoinWeek Notes .....   The story of the three-year Liberty Seated Quarter, No Motto, No Drapery type, which ran...

By Charles Morgan and Hubert Walker for CoinWeek Notes ..... Southern secession began on December 20, 1860. Abraham Lincoln's election victory, carried entirely by voters in the northern states, convinced pro-slavery...

A counterfeiter was hoping that this transplanted mintmark would fly under the radar   By Numismatic Guaranty Company (NGC) .....   In 1855, the relatively new San Francisco...

“Duke of Carson City Coins” among most important in all of U.S. numismatics   A passion can be sparked by any number of factors. In the...