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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 1469873, member: 66&quot;]I don&#039;t know about the Barbers but the obverse of each of the Seated designs are different.&nbsp; (The no drapery pieces may not be possible to tell apart, but the with drapery pieces can be.)&nbsp; The two that are hardest to tell apart are the dime and half dime.&nbsp; On the half dime and dime the shield is upright.&nbsp; On the half dime the drapery the edge of the drapery meets the leg at a steep angle of maybe 70 degrees.&nbsp; On the dime it meets the leg at less than a 45 degree angle.</p><p><img src="http://www.coinfacts.com/half_dimes/seated_liberty_half_dimes/1842o_half_dime_obv.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><img src="http://www.coinfacts.com/dimes/seated_liberty_dimes/1843_dime_obv.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>On the 20 cent the word LIBERTY is in raised letters on the shield banner.&nbsp; The central figure is also smaller than on the other denominations so Liberty&#039;s head does not extend up into the circle of stars.</p><p><img src="http://www.coinfacts.com/twenty_cents/1876_twenty_cents_obverse.JPG" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>On the quarter, half, and dollar the shield is noticeably tipped to the left.&nbsp; On the quarter the drapery is similar to that seen on the dime but the rock is different and it reaches almost all the way down to the baseline of the ground.</p><p><img src="http://www.coinfacts.com/quarter_dollars/seated_liberty_quarters/1859_quarter_dollar_obv.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>On the half dollar the drapery is much smaller basically just reaching Liberty&#039;s elbow, the stars now point outward toward the denticals (on the others the stars point at each other) and the vertical stripes in the shield are now in groups of three instead of two.&nbsp; The rock joins the ground at the left edge very differently than on the other denominations where the left edge from the arm to the ground is a fairly smooth curve.</p><p><img src="http://www.coinfacts.com/half_dollars/seated_liberty_half_dollars/1842_half_dollar_sdll_obv.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>On the dollar the drapery is larger than the half but no where near as voluminous as on the dime or quarter.&nbsp; The rock is larger now and there is almost no ground below it.&nbsp; The stars again point outward.&nbsp; There are three groups of vertical stripes above the banner instead of two.</p><p><img src="http://www.coinfacts.com/silver_dollars/seated_liberty_dollars/1850_Silver_Dollar_Obv.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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