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Message:: [QUOTE="Catbert, post: 422720, member: 12718"]I am reading the second edition of Numismatic Art in America by Cornelius Vermeule and he quotes a letter to the mint director published in 1876. The letter's author refers to the Seated Liberty design as such: "The young women sitting on nothing in particular, wearing nothing to speak of, looking over her shoulder at nothing imaginable, and bearing in her left hand something that looks like a broomstick with a woolen nightcap on it--what is she doing there? what is the meaning of her? She is Liberty, we are told, and there is a label to that effect across a shield at her right, her need of which is not in any way manifest. But she might as well be anything else as Liberty; and at the first glance she looks much more like a spinster in her smock, with a distaff in her hand. Such a figure has no proper place upon a coin." "Our coins of forty or fifity years ago were much better in every respect, and looked much more like money, the reason being that they bore a head of Liberty which was bold, clear, and well defined in comparison with the weak thing that the Mint had given us for the last thirty years or so." Do you like the seated design? If so, why? If not, which coin design to you feel captures Liberty best on U.S. coinage? <img src="http://i259.photobucket.com/albums/hh297/IndianaCatbert/1847%20Seated%20Dollar/100-1847-obv.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]