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Liberty nickels

anablepanablep Posts: 5,097 ✭✭✭✭✭
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Question about these nickels... If they were designed by Barber, why not call them Barber nickels like the other coins he designed during this time period? Just wondering!
Thanks!
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  • pursuitoflibertypursuitofliberty Posts: 6,913 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Good question without a good answer (at least from me) ... I always wonder why we call the silver issues "Barber" coins anyway, since at least into the 50's they where called the Liberty Head Dimes, Quarters and Halves by many (the majority I believe). Maybe with Seated Liberty, Standing Liberty, Walking Liberty and the Winged Liberty (Mercury or another Liberty Head if you wish), the use of coins called "Liberty" was too much confussion as to which series was being refered.

    Of course with nickels, there was no confussion as the series went Shield, Liberty, Indian (Buffalo) ...


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    please let me know if you have Shield and Liberty Nickels for sale ... AU55 to MS63

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  • Conder101Conder101 Posts: 10,536 ✭


    << <i>I always wonder why we call the silver issues "Barber" coins anyway, since at least into the 50's they where called the Liberty Head Dimes, Quarters and Halves by many (the majority I believe). >>


    On the early coin boards they were called Morgan dimes, quarters, and halves.

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