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Message:: [QUOTE="Clinker, post: 1202211, member: 6229"]Liberty Cap Coins　 Originally known as the Phrygian Cap or Freedom Cap,the Liberty Cap was one of the featured items on United States coins beginning in 1793. Through the years it was predomently featured on a pole (some varieties were struck without pole) behind Liberty's head, worn as a cap or on a pole to the right of a Seated Liberty.　It was a prominent fixture on　Half Cents (1793 - 1797) Liberty Cap with or without poleLarge Cents (1792 - 1796) Liberty Cap with or without poleHalf Dimes (1829 - 1837) Capped BustHalf Dimes (1837 - 1873) Seated LibertyDimes (1809 - 1837) Capped BustDimes (1837 - 1891) Seated LibertyTwenty-Cent Pieces (1875 - 1878) Seated LibertyQuarter Dollars (1815 - 1838) Capped BustQuarter Dollars (1838 - 1891) Seated LibertyHalf Dollars (1807 - 1939) Capped BustHalf Dollars (1839 - 1891) Seated LibertyDollars (1836 - 1873) Seated LibertyGold ($2 1/2) Quarter Eagle (1796 - 1834) Capped BustGold ($5) Half Eagle (1795 - 1834) Capped BustGold ($10) Eagle (1795 - 1804) Capped Bust　HALF CENT (Coin Archives photo):　<a href="http://www.coinarchives.com/w/lotviewer.php?LotID=940826&AucID=697&Lot=2266&Val=e3daf62614aa14746b10582609ae2306" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.coinarchives.com/w/lotviewer.php?LotID=940826&AucID=697&Lot=2266&Val=e3daf62614aa14746b10582609ae2306" rel="nofollow">http://www.coinarchives.com/w/lotviewer.php?LotID=940826&AucID=697&Lot=2266&Val=e3daf62614aa14746b10582609ae2306</a>　LARGE CENT (Coin Auctions Help photo):　<a href="http://coinauctionshelp.com/LibertyCapRightLargeCent.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://coinauctionshelp.com/LibertyCapRightLargeCent.html" rel="nofollow">http://coinauctionshelp.com/LibertyCapRightLargeCent.html</a>　HALF DIME - CAPPED BUST (Flickr photo):　<a href="http://coinauctionshelp.com/SeatedLibertyHalfDime.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://coinauctionshelp.com/SeatedLibertyHalfDime.html" rel="nofollow">http://coinauctionshelp.com/SeatedLibertyHalfDime.html</a>　HALF DIME - SEATED LIBERTY (Coin Auctions Help photo):　<a href="http://coinauctionshelp.com/SeatedLibertyHalfDime.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://coinauctionshelp.com/SeatedLibertyHalfDime.html" rel="nofollow">http://coinauctionshelp.com/SeatedLibertyHalfDime.html</a>　DIME - CAPPED BUST (Coin Page & Great Toning PHOTO)　<a href="http://www.coinpage.com/coin-image-8853.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.coinpage.com/coin-image-8853.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.coinpage.com/coin-image-8853.html</a>　DIME - LIBERTY SEATED (Coin Auctions Help photo)　<a href="http://coinauctionshelp.com/Seated Dime Page.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://coinauctionshelp.com/Seated Dime Page.html" rel="nofollow">http://coinauctionshelp.com/Seated Dime Page.html</a>　TWENTY-CENT PIECE - SEATED LIBERTY (Wikipedia photo):　<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:1876_twenty_cents_obv.jpg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:1876_twenty_cents_obv.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:1876_twenty_cents_obv.jpg</a>　QUARTER-DOLLAR - CAPPED BUST (Flickr photo)　<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/59039457@N07/5485993264/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/59039457@N07/5485993264/" rel="nofollow">http://www.flickr.com/photos/59039457@N07/5485993264/</a>　QUARTER-DOLLAR - SEATED LIBERTY (Coin Page & Great Toning photo):　<a href="http://www.coinpage.com/coin-image-3827.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.coinpage.com/coin-image-3827.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.coinpage.com/coin-image-3827.html</a>　HALF DOLLAR - CAPPED BUST (Coin Auctions Help photo):　<a href="http://coinauctionshelp.com/Capped_Bust_Half_Dollar.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://coinauctionshelp.com/Capped_Bust_Half_Dollar.html" rel="nofollow">http://coinauctionshelp.com/Capped_Bust_Half_Dollar.html</a>　HALF DOLLAR - LIBERTY SEATED (Coin Auctions Help photo):　<a href="http://coinauctionshelp.com/Seated_Liberty_Half_Dollar.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://coinauctionshelp.com/Seated_Liberty_Half_Dollar.html" rel="nofollow">http://coinauctionshelp.com/Seated_Liberty_Half_Dollar.html</a>　SILVER DOLLAR - LIBERTY SEATED (Coin Auctions Help photo):　<a href="http://coinauctionshelp.com/Seated_Liberty_Silver_Dollar.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://coinauctionshelp.com/Seated_Liberty_Silver_Dollar.html" rel="nofollow">http://coinauctionshelp.com/Seated_Liberty_Silver_Dollar.html</a>　GOLD QUARTER EAGLE- CAPPED HEAD AND TURBAN HEAD (Coin Auctions Help photo):　<a href="http://coinauctionshelp.com/Turban_Head_$2.50_Gold.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://coinauctionshelp.com/Turban_Head_$2.50_Gold.html" rel="nofollow">http://coinauctionshelp.com/Turban_Head_$2.50_Gold.html</a>　GOLD QUARTER EAGLE - CAPPED DRAPED BUST (Coin Auctions Help photo):　<a href="http://coinauctionshelp.com/Capped_Draped_Bust_$2.50_Quarter_Eagle.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://coinauctionshelp.com/Capped_Draped_Bust_$2.50_Quarter_Eagle.html" rel="nofollow">http://coinauctionshelp.com/Capped_Draped_Bust_$2.50_Quarter_Eagle.html</a>　GOLD HALF EAGLE - CAPPED BUST AND CAPPED HEAD (Coin Auctions Help photo):　<a href="http://coinauctionshelp.com/cappedheadleft_halfeagle_cappedbusthead.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://coinauctionshelp.com/cappedheadleft_halfeagle_cappedbusthead.html" rel="nofollow">http://coinauctionshelp.com/cappedheadleft_halfeagle_cappedbusthead.html</a>　GOLD EAGLE - TURBAN HEAD AND DRAPED BUST(Coin Auctioins Help photo):　<a href="http://coinauctionshelp.com/Turban_Head_Eagle_$10.00.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://coinauctionshelp.com/Turban_Head_Eagle_$10.00.html" rel="nofollow">http://coinauctionshelp.com/Turban_Head_Eagle_$10.00.html</a>　While pondering the use of the Liberty Cap on all these coins, I asked myself, "Was the placing of a Liberty Cap on coinage solely the doing of the United States Mint?" 　I discovered a few other coins minted elsewhere in the world bear a Liberty Cap on them (all following photos are courtesy of Coin Archives unless noted).　During France's Constitutional Period, Louis XVI (1774-1793), authorized the production of copper 2 Sols bearing a Liberty Cap on a pole. This 1792 Essai proves that France's Liberty Cap coinage predates the United States Liberty Cap coinage by a full year:　　<a href="http://www.coinarchives.com/w/lotviewer.php?LotID=946853&AucID=702&Lot=353&Val=4a3bd0cce0dcac50899f73fa1ec750b5" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.coinarchives.com/w/lotviewer.php?LotID=946853&AucID=702&Lot=353&Val=4a3bd0cce0dcac50899f73fa1ec750b5" rel="nofollow">http://www.coinarchives.com/w/lotviewer.php?LotID=946853&AucID=702&Lot=353&Val=4a3bd0cce0dcac50899f73fa1ec750b5</a>　　1792 wasn't the last year France struck coins bearing a Liberty Cap. In 1986 France produced a platinum 100 Francs coin to commemorate the 100th Anniversary of the Statue of Liberty:　　<a href="http://www.coinarchives.com/w/lotviewer.php?LotID=946901&AucID=702&Lot=401&Val=3aa84554b340542dd7072568bd6fac62" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.coinarchives.com/w/lotviewer.php?LotID=946901&AucID=702&Lot=401&Val=3aa84554b340542dd7072568bd6fac62" rel="nofollow">http://www.coinarchives.com/w/lotviewer.php?LotID=946901&AucID=702&Lot=401&Val=3aa84554b340542dd7072568bd6fac62</a>　　1823 was ushered in with the formation of a new nation: The Republic of Mexico (now known as the First Republic). One of the first things this new nation did was to redesign its coinage. Attesting to this change may I present to you one of the denominations referred to as an Octavo which is, in reality, a 1/8 Real. First coin production began in 1824. This photo of an 1850 Octavo is indicative of the design (Seated Liberty, cap on pole):　　<a href="http://www.coinarchives.com/w/lotviewer.php?LotID=973998&AucID=905&Lot=1908&Val=a6ed6a3d7fdbf0fcff047d81c9598f43" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.coinarchives.com/w/lotviewer.php?LotID=973998&AucID=905&Lot=1908&Val=a6ed6a3d7fdbf0fcff047d81c9598f43" rel="nofollow">http://www.coinarchives.com/w/lotviewer.php?LotID=973998&AucID=905&Lot=1908&Val=a6ed6a3d7fdbf0fcff047d81c9598f43</a>　　Real coinage featured a Liberty Cap centered in a circle of rays (glory): as shown by this 1824 8 Reales (same design on all real coinage 1/2, 1, 2, 4 and 8):　　<a href="http://www.coinarchives.com/w/lotviewer.php?LotID=948129&AucID=702&Lot=1630&Val=bc8c47100066b1713de92cf2b8e5b42a" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.coinarchives.com/w/lotviewer.php?LotID=948129&AucID=702&Lot=1630&Val=bc8c47100066b1713de92cf2b8e5b42a" rel="nofollow">http://www.coinarchives.com/w/lotviewer.php?LotID=948129&AucID=702&Lot=1630&Val=bc8c47100066b1713de92cf2b8e5b42a</a>　　Copper coinage of the Republic of Mexico featured the Liberty Cap in a different design (Cap in circle of cloud on starburst (glory):　　<a href="http://www.coinarchives.com/w/lotviewer.php?LotID=948131&AucID=702&Lot=1632&Val=fe8c75e96f7020213117c616ff4ee80e" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.coinarchives.com/w/lotviewer.php?LotID=948131&AucID=702&Lot=1632&Val=fe8c75e96f7020213117c616ff4ee80e" rel="nofollow">http://www.coinarchives.com/w/lotviewer.php?LotID=948131&AucID=702&Lot=1632&Val=fe8c75e96f7020213117c616ff4ee80e</a>　　Gold Escudo coins carried this design:　　<a href="http://www.coinarchives.com/w/lotviewer.php?LotID=948124&AucID=702&Lot=1625&Val=0873b19e6f408a7201c77c3faece4885" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.coinarchives.com/w/lotviewer.php?LotID=948124&AucID=702&Lot=1625&Val=0873b19e6f408a7201c77c3faece4885" rel="nofollow">http://www.coinarchives.com/w/lotviewer.php?LotID=948124&AucID=702&Lot=1625&Val=0873b19e6f408a7201c77c3faece4885</a>　　Some of Peru's coins featured a standing Liberty holdng a pole surmounted with a Liberty Cap:　　<a href="http://www.coinarchives.com/w/lotviewer.php?LotID=974028&AucID=905&Lot=1938&Val=ca66910ed81ac6c7cb000e81c193dd0b" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.coinarchives.com/w/lotviewer.php?LotID=974028&AucID=905&Lot=1938&Val=ca66910ed81ac6c7cb000e81c193dd0b" rel="nofollow">http://www.coinarchives.com/w/lotviewer.php?LotID=974028&AucID=905&Lot=1938&Val=ca66910ed81ac6c7cb000e81c193dd0b</a>　　For an example of a foreign coin showing Liberty wearing the Liberty Cap allow me to present you with a photo of this Quito, Ecudor Mint's silver 4 Reales:　　<a href="http://www.coinarchives.com/w/lotviewer.php?LotID=993391&AucID=923&Lot=23826&Val=e607a54facea15a268d820831697c850" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.coinarchives.com/w/lotviewer.php?LotID=993391&AucID=923&Lot=23826&Val=e607a54facea15a268d820831697c850" rel="nofollow">http://www.coinarchives.com/w/lotviewer.php?LotID=993391&AucID=923&Lot=23826&Val=e607a54facea15a268d820831697c850</a>　　Did you know Italy was once known as The Subalpine Republic (1800-1801)? It was a provisional government established in the wake of the French conquest of the Kingdom of Sardinia. This short-lived state was dissolved in 1802 and its territory divided between France and Italy.　　It produced coinage in 1801. One of its denominations is this 1801 silver 5 Francs. The obverse features a standing Liberty holding cymbal and a pole surmounted by a Liberty Cap:　　<a href="http://www.coinarchives.com/w/lotviewer.php?LotID=971930&AucID=858&Lot=431&Val=d19b3c96ea7acca8b6d70b6651b2c98f" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.coinarchives.com/w/lotviewer.php?LotID=971930&AucID=858&Lot=431&Val=d19b3c96ea7acca8b6d70b6651b2c98f" rel="nofollow">http://www.coinarchives.com/w/lotviewer.php?LotID=971930&AucID=858&Lot=431&Val=d19b3c96ea7acca8b6d70b6651b2c98f</a>　　Argentina's contribution to Liberty Cap coinage is their 5 Pesos pieces of the late 1800s as evidenced by this 1883 5 Pesos:　　<a href="http://www.coinarchives.com/w/lotviewer.php?LotID=947904&AucID=702&Lot=1405&Val=4c7d95d259eeac9a72a02e55da6785a3" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.coinarchives.com/w/lotviewer.php?LotID=947904&AucID=702&Lot=1405&Val=4c7d95d259eeac9a72a02e55da6785a3" rel="nofollow">http://www.coinarchives.com/w/lotviewer.php?LotID=947904&AucID=702&Lot=1405&Val=4c7d95d259eeac9a72a02e55da6785a3</a>　　The State of North Haiti (1807-1811) authorized this 1807 15 Sols featuring a Standing Liberty with cap on pole:　　<a href="http://www.coinarchives.com/w/lotviewer.php?LotID=948093&AucID=702&Lot=1594&Val=43dc008b79d33f8c24e1993d29527fcb" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.coinarchives.com/w/lotviewer.php?LotID=948093&AucID=702&Lot=1594&Val=43dc008b79d33f8c24e1993d29527fcb" rel="nofollow">http://www.coinarchives.com/w/lotviewer.php?LotID=948093&AucID=702&Lot=1594&Val=43dc008b79d33f8c24e1993d29527fcb</a>　In 1978 Paraguay issued this 70,000 Guaranies piece whose reverse features a Seated Lion with Liberty Cap on Pole:　　<a href="http://www.coinarchives.com/w/lotviewer.php?LotID=948159&AucID=702&Lot=1660&Val=e6d58af8bb9a1636eca434cf46489ba8" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.coinarchives.com/w/lotviewer.php?LotID=948159&AucID=702&Lot=1660&Val=e6d58af8bb9a1636eca434cf46489ba8" rel="nofollow">http://www.coinarchives.com/w/lotviewer.php?LotID=948159&AucID=702&Lot=1660&Val=e6d58af8bb9a1636eca434cf46489ba8</a>　　Not only was the Liberty Cap placed on coins, but it was used as a symbol of liberty and freedom on Medals too. Here's a few examples courtesy of Coin Archives:　　<a href="http://www.coinarchives.com/w/lotviewer.php?LotID=1004819&AucID=931&Lot=8450&Val=d9ca0937f4a0bf727fcb74beb7a8a2d3" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.coinarchives.com/w/lotviewer.php?LotID=1004819&AucID=931&Lot=8450&Val=d9ca0937f4a0bf727fcb74beb7a8a2d3" rel="nofollow">http://www.coinarchives.com/w/lotviewer.php?LotID=1004819&AucID=931&Lot=8450&Val=d9ca0937f4a0bf727fcb74beb7a8a2d3</a>　　Way back in 1864 the Commonwealth of Great Britain celebrated Peace between England and Holland with this silver Medal:　　<a href="http://www.coinarchives.com/w/lotviewer.php?LotID=974241&AucID=905&Lot=2151&Val=321071e67276dc4e5f8fec0b54cb4742" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.coinarchives.com/w/lotviewer.php?LotID=974241&AucID=905&Lot=2151&Val=321071e67276dc4e5f8fec0b54cb4742" rel="nofollow">http://www.coinarchives.com/w/lotviewer.php?LotID=974241&AucID=905&Lot=2151&Val=321071e67276dc4e5f8fec0b54cb4742</a>　　Switzerland issued this special Peace commemoratrive bronze Medal in 1749:　　<a href="http://www.coinarchives.com/w/lotviewer.php?LotID=979971&AucID=912&Lot=248&Val=5da608e1eba6b8047effe633c2a9b0da" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.coinarchives.com/w/lotviewer.php?LotID=979971&AucID=912&Lot=248&Val=5da608e1eba6b8047effe633c2a9b0da" rel="nofollow">http://www.coinarchives.com/w/lotviewer.php?LotID=979971&AucID=912&Lot=248&Val=5da608e1eba6b8047effe633c2a9b0da</a>　　Hope you enjoyed seeing these Liberty Cap coins and medals.　　Clinker[/QUOTE]

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