Christian Gobrecht

By CoinWeek Notes ..... Fortin-107. Rarity-7+. In 1849, the Philadelphia Mint struck 839,000 Liberty Seated Dimes for circulation plus a handful of Proofs. The total Proof...

1895 Liberty Head Quarter Eagle: Gold, Politics, and Market Rarity The year 1895 tested the American economy. Moreover, it reshaped U.S. politics and the gold...

By CoinWeek Notes ..... Liberty Head Quarter Eagles were struck at all four mints in 1847. The New Orleans Mint struck the most, more than...

By CoinWeek Notes ..... Liberty Seated Half Dollar, Motto With Arrows (1873–1874) The Liberty Seated Half Dollar underwent its final design modification in 1873. That change...

By CoinWeek Notes ..... The Charlotte Mint struck three coin denominations in 1851: the Gold Dollar, the Liberty Head Quarter Eagle, and the Liberty Head Half...

By Charles Morgan and Hubert Walker for CoinWeek Notes ..... The $10 gold eagle was the largest denomination coin authorized by the Mint Act of 1792, but an unfavorable silver-to-gold ratio...

By Charles Morgan and Hubert Walker for CoinWeek Notes ..... In the late 1830s, United States Mint Director Robert M. Patterson had Engraver Christian Gobrecht update...

By Charles Morgan and Hubert Walker for CoinWeek Notes ..... The California Gold Rush so upset the balance of the gold-to-silver ratio that the cost of silver compared to gold had...

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 ..... Silver dollar coinage resumed in 1840 with the Liberty Seated design. For the first decade of the denomination's reintroduction, the Philadelphia...

By Charles Morgan and Hubert Walker for CoinWeek Notes ..... Christian Gobrecht's depiction of Liberty followed United States Mint Chief Engraver William Kneass' Classic Head...

By Charles Morgan and Hubert Walker for CoinWeek Notes ..... The American Civil War unleashed a national trauma that is hard to contextualize, even in...

By Charles Morgan and Hubert Walker for CoinWeek Notes ..... The Liberty Seated Dollar design, which debuted in 1840, was largely out of circulation when...

By Charles Morgan and Hubert Walker for CoinWeek Notes ..... When the production of silver dollar coinage was suspended during the Jefferson Administration, the United...

By Charles Morgan and Hubert Walker for CoinWeek Notes ..... In August 1836, United States Mint Chief Engraver Christian Gobrecht completed work on the new...