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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 957927, member: 66&quot;]Charles Barber was five years OLDER than Morgan (Barber born 1840, Morgan 1845)</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m not sure I wold call it going to war, but he did make a lot of objections and point out a lot of the problems with the designs.&nbsp; But he also tried to work with the designers to fix the problems.&nbsp; Usually though the designers had no interest in having the problems &quot;fixed&quot;.&nbsp; And merely complained about the mint&#039;s &quot;interference&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Yes he was technically competent.&nbsp; He understood completely how a coin should be produced&nbsp; so as to maximize die life and strike up well.&nbsp; He just wasn&#039;t a real good artist.&nbsp; But it is because of him that the coins introduced between 1907 and 1916 worked out as well as they did.&nbsp; I am kind of surprised though that he didn&#039;t catch the date problem with the nickel and the standing quarter.&nbsp; maybe with the nickel he was just getting sick and tired of fighting with the designers, and in the case of the quarter maybe he was just to old and sick to care that much anymore.&nbsp; The quarter was produced in late Dec 1916 and came out in Jan 1917.&nbsp; Barber died in February.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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