its4real - The coin, named for its engraver George T. Morgan, features the profile of Anna Willess Williams, a schoolteacher who posed for sketches that Morgan initially intended for use on a half dollar. In fact, Morgan did use Anna Williams' portrait on a pattern half dollar of 1877, but when the hurry-up order for a new silver dollar came in 1878, the portrait was pressed into use for the larger coin. After several changes were made, Morgan's "new" silver dollar design was chosen and coinage began the same year. Personally I think he was dating her.
Adolf Weinman did not design the Standing Liberty Quarter. It was designed by Hermon MacNeil. I have no heros but often wonder what George T. Morgan could have accomplished if the Barber's hadn't stood in his way. There's no question who had the greater talent.
How come noone mentioned John Albanese who started NGC who if noone knows is a brilliant numistmatist as well as very likeable person.Mark Salzberg is also a very brilliant numistmatist
Rick Montgomery may not be anyones HERO but he deserves alot of credit as being the most respected grader.Its amazing the worth of the product that he produces.
1. Walter Breen on strictly a numismatic level. 2. Leroy Van Allen 3. Joseph Feld 4. Q. David B. 5. Rick Snow 6. John Wexler 7. Stewart Blay (unitl I beat him in the showdown) . . . . 64. David Hall
1. Ambassador Henry and Emory Mae Norweb.....the best of the best. 2. Joe Flynn Sr. (not the Junior!!!) (when Kansas City, MO was 2nd in the country only to New York!) 3. Harold Bareford (he invented buying quality for cheap.......not Pittman) 4. Alan Lovejoy........dimes was his middle name. 4. David Q. Bowers, "the Boy Wonder of Numismatics." He was every boy's hero in the 1960's. 5. Kenneth Bressett....... a giant as well!!!! 6. David Akers........gold and Canada are his middle names! 7. Harry Foreman and his sidekick Ruth .........he made collecting fun for me as a teenager in the late 1960's.
Of course R.S. Yeoman and many more must be mentioned but they were just great ones not my personal heroes.
Yes, Rick Montgomery is probably the most underappreciated numismatist of all of the past 25 years. He has been the glue and the stability of PCGS the last decade.
Think of the numismatic knowledge we have on the boards and the library of the members ,much of what can be accessed just for the asking,if asked politely,,,,or ttt`d to death. Alot of you are my `mentors` in coins. Thanks for those that can and do help to educate some of us.
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Adolf Weinman did not design the Standing Liberty Quarter. It was designed by Hermon MacNeil. I have no heros but often wonder what George T. Morgan could have accomplished if the Barber's hadn't stood in his way. There's no question who had the greater talent.
How come noone mentioned John Albanese who started NGC who if noone knows is a brilliant numistmatist as well as very likeable person.Mark Salzberg is also a very brilliant numistmatist
Rick Montgomery may not be anyones HERO but he deserves alot of credit as being the most respected grader.Its amazing the worth of the product that he produces.
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2. Leroy Van Allen
3. Joseph Feld
4. Q. David B.
5. Rick Snow
6. John Wexler
7. Stewart Blay (unitl I beat him in the showdown)
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64. David Hall
1. Ambassador Henry and Emory Mae Norweb.....the best of the best.
2. Joe Flynn Sr. (not the Junior!!!) (when Kansas City, MO was 2nd in the country only to New York!)
3. Harold Bareford (he invented buying quality for cheap.......not Pittman)
4. Alan Lovejoy........dimes was his middle name.
4. David Q. Bowers, "the Boy Wonder of Numismatics." He was every boy's hero in the 1960's.
5. Kenneth Bressett....... a giant as well!!!!
6. David Akers........gold and Canada are his middle names!
7. Harry Foreman and his sidekick Ruth .........he made collecting fun for me as a teenager in the late 1960's.
Of course R.S. Yeoman and many more must be mentioned but they were just great ones not my personal heroes.
,much of what can be accessed just for the asking,if asked politely,,,,or ttt`d to death.
Alot of you are my `mentors` in coins.
Thanks for those that can and do help to educate some of us.