Were George Morgan and Charles Barber friends?

kamehameha00

I see that they have designed some commemoratives together.(Example:Columbian Half Dollar,1903 Lousiana Purchase Dollar,1915 Pan-Pac Half Dollar and Quarter Eagle, and 1916-17 McKinley Dollar.

Aethelred

I believe that Barber hated Morgan!

kamehameha00

How come?

nwcs

Yep, they didn't like each other. I believe it was professional dislike plus the barbers had a hold on the mint for quite a while and disliked others who were horning in on their "domain."

airplanenut

Maybe because Barber's circulating coins, when added together, still couldn't beat Morgan's

nwcs

And that Barber screwed up St. Gaudens' designs. And even when he did that, they still looked good -- testifying to how good St. Gaudens was.

GAT

George Morgan's talents far surpassed Charles Barber and the Barberts knew it. They refused to find working space for Morgan in the mint and he had to work out if his boarding house.

FC57Coins

Morgan, also being British - was viewed as a foreign interloper by the Barbers. They had their little empire at the mint and they wanted to keep it for themselves. When Morgan came onboard in the 1870's and was reporting directly to the director of the mint, it didn't sit well with William Barber right off the bat, and the relationship apparently never got any better.

Dennis88

Morgan wanted to become chief engraver upon the death of William Barber, wich was one of his dreams. They also submitted a lot of designs for new standard US coins in the 1870's.

Dennis