Post any pre-seated liberty coin, any! Flowing, Draped, Capped...etc.

Billet7

savoyspecial

Billet7

Greg, I like that one. Every time you post it I think...wow, that never circulated. Rare for a counterstamp.

messydesk

savoyspecial

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Greg, I like that one. Every time you post it I think...wow, that never circulated. Rare for a counterstamp.
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i like it too.....photo comes courtesy of Dennis Tarrant and i wish i had jumped on it long ago

Moldnut

I love this dime I bought from Northeast a few months ago! PCGS VF-25

relicsncoins

Baley

LeeG

PQType

Check out the right wing under the M in the bannner. recut "S" also a few tiny lumps from rusted die after the last A in america and another after the O in OF ....... New die state variety?

Billet7

PQType, I really think that's a cool coin...I poked around a little bit, and I have never heard of it's equal. It really looks like a double wing!

STONE

PQ, that would be a clash. Plain and simple

Barndog

TomB

This was my first early Federal purchase-

jdillane

Billet7

<< <i>PQ, that would be a clash. Plain and simple >>



He's right. I did an overlay, it's a perfect match. I didn't notice the rest of the clash before, but I see it now clear as day.

By the way...Jdillane, that gold looks too perfect to be real!!! can you tell me more about it...grade etc.

jdillane

jdillane

Sure, she's got issues but I still like her!

jdillane

STONE

I like this thread...TTT

lordmarcovan

You did stress the word "any", so let's go WAY before Seated Liberties, to the roots of the whole Seated Liberty thing.

I feel confident in assuming that Christian Gobrecht had the seated Britannia of British coins in mind when he designed the Seated Liberties.

Those in turn had their roots in Roman times, when the Romans issued a coin with a seated Britannia on the reverse. Seated females were a common theme on Roman coins. Here are some of my past favorites.

Silver denarius of Tiberius (14-37 AD); the "Tribute Penny" of the Bible story.


Bronze as of the infamous Caligula (37-41 AD).


Silver denarius of the equally infamous Nero (54-68 AD).


Bronze sestertius of the short-reigning Galba (68-69 AD). Note that while this female figure isn't seated, she IS a Liberty ("Libertas").


Silver denarius of another short-lived Civil War emperor: Vitellius (69 AD).


The eventual victor of the Civil War and the last emperor in the "Year of Four Emperors": Vespasian (69-79 AD).
(On an early coin struck circa 69 AD before he arrived in Rome and the engravers knew what he looked like).





I couldn't resist posting some of these again, though I had to sell them last year. I do miss them. Please forgive my nostalgia.

mrearlygold

1807 Quarter Eagle in Choice Mint State

PQType

BillJones

Mass. silver 2 pence.

PQType