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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Stonedywankanobe, post: 3695668, member: 90786&quot;]A nice score no doubt CBD. Early in my collecting i was into the Barber series, mostly quarters, nothing too fancy. I had on several occasions considered the seated liberty series but something about the look of obverse always&nbsp; fail short of wowing the money from my wallet. </p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;Couldnt put my finger on it until i stumbled upon an old article id come across somewhere in years gone by, that put words to the way i felt about the series.</p><p><br /></p><p>Not knocking your coin by any means Sir CBD </p><p>&nbsp;Please dont take it as such. Hoping maybe someone who hasn&#039;t read it may get a chuckle from it like myself.</p><p><br /></p><p>So</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;A Movement towards redesign...</p><p><br /></p><p>For much of the second half of the 19th century, most U.S. silver coins bore a design of a seated Liberty. This design had been created by Christian Gobrecht, an engraver at the United States Mint in Philadelphia, after a sketch by artist Thomas Sully, and introduced to U.S. coins in the late 1830s. The design reflected an English influence, and as artistic tastes changed over time, was increasingly disliked in the United States. In 1876, The Galaxy magazine said of the then current silver coins:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.goldismoney2.com/attachments/220px-1858_seated_liberty_half_dollar_obverse-jpg.50242/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.goldismoney2.com/attachments/220px-1858_seated_liberty_half_dollar_obverse-jpg.50242/" rel="nofollow"><img src="https://www.goldismoney2.com/data/attachments/44/44040-100283e62cf02859767f543e279ddf50.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a> </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;Why is it we have the ugliest money of all civilized nations? The design is poor, commonplace, tasteless, characterless, and the execution is like thereunto. They have rather the appearance of tokens or mean medals. One reason for this is that the design is so inartistic, and so insignificant. That young woman 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?&quot; </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]990472[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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