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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;johnmilton, post: 3548060, member: 101855&quot;]This is an educated guess comment on my part, but I’d say that Barber smoothed out the Buffalo Nickel fields because he thought that the coin might strike up better, or to extend the life of the dies.</p><p><br /></p><p>A battle existed during the period from 1907 when Theodore Roosevelt got Augustus St. Gaudens involved in designing coins until 1921. The outside artist – coin designers were into esthetics but didn’t know much about mass producing coins. Barber who an expert at making coin dies, but not greatest artist. That’s not to say that all of his work was mundane. Barber’s design for the Panama – Pacific $2.50 gold was quite innovative in style and substance. He is best remembered for the Barber Dime, Quarter and Half Dollar, and the designs for those coins are not very exciting in my opinion.</p><p><br /></p><p>Some of the outside artist designs didn’t work. The prime example of that was Herman MacNeil’s Standing Liberty Quarter which faced production problems through out its run. He almost got it right with the 1917 Type I Quarter, but then he messed with the design to arm Ms. Liberty for World War I, and it was never the same.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here are the two 1913 Matte Proof nickels for your review.</p><p><br /></p><p>Type I</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]942909[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]942910[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Type II</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]942911[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]942912[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>And here is a&nbsp; 1936 Brillant Proof</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]942917[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]942918[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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