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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;doug444, post: 1919836, member: 38849&quot;]Going back to your original post,</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;Information about the time period and its relation to how and why the coins were made...&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>there&#039;s an opportunity to do something new, not mentioned yet, and that&#039;s to analyze all the patterns and essays attributed to your designer of choice.&nbsp; I don&#039;t know if Barber had any patterns (that&#039;s not my interest), but it seems important to look for any evolution through the 1870s and 1880s that led to the radical design change of 1892.&nbsp; The year 1890 is generally considered the closing of the frontier, followed by the true rise of the industrial age, the era of oil and steel and railroads and international trade.&nbsp; Gobrecht&#039;s Liberty Seated design(s) date back 25 years before the Civil War, so, somewhere within the Government, there must have been pressure to &quot;update&quot; the coins of everyday commerce, even though the Barber era lasted less than a quarter century.&nbsp; It was also the last time the U.S. had unified designs for the dime, quarter, and half dollar (and silver dollar, through 1873).&nbsp; The year 1878 marks the first year the Seated Liberty design was ousted, i.e., it was not resumed after the Bland-Allison Act of 1878 -- a new design was adopted.&nbsp; It&#039;s probably worth asking why the Liberty &quot;head&quot; design passed into history, in the middle of World War I,&nbsp; to be replaced by three virtually Art Deco representations of Liberty.</p><p><br /></p><p>My rambling here could run 100 pages, but, I simply encourage you to integrate your designer&#039;s patterns and essays (if any) into the mix.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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