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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;WingedLiberty, post: 1025515, member: 26030&quot;]I always wondered why certain coin series types were named after their designer and others named after the coin design itself.</p><p><br /></p><p>The Morgan Silver Dollar; Barber Dime, Quarter, Half; and Saint Gaudens $20 Gold were named after the designer.&nbsp;&nbsp; I always wondered how these people got their names in such noteriety.&nbsp;&nbsp; I always wondered, who decides the &quot;name&quot; of each coin -- i wonder if that was done by congress or later by coin books (such as the Redbook Guide to U.S.Coins)</p><p><br /></p><p>If the powers that be had continued to do the naming by designer, the Lincoln Cent might be known today as the Brenner Cent, and the Kennedy Half as the Roberts Half. Sort of a funny thought. </p><p><br /></p><p>I also find it interesting that early in our countries coin history, specific coin designs were shared amongst many denominations: The Draped Bust was used on half cents, cents, dimes, quarters, halfs, and dollars.&nbsp; Later the Liberty Seated design was shared by many denominations. That finally ended around 1916 when the Barber series ended. No idea why though -- not sure what happened in 1916 to motivate this change.&nbsp; Maybe prior to that it was just laziness on the part of the USMint?&nbsp; Or a cost saving measure?</p><p>In any case I am glad this change was made as I think it would be boring today if all coins shared the same design.</p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s also interesting that the switching from alegorical representations of liberty or history to dead presidents was first adopted in 1909 when the cent was changed to the Lincoln Head design.&nbsp; This set a powerful precident (no pun intended) as in the 1930&#039;s and 1940&#039;s all coins switched over to the dead president (or elder statesmen) design with the Jefferson, Rosevelt, Washington, and Franklin design.&nbsp; The only exception that I can think of was the S.B.A. and later Saga. Dollar coins (althought both of these women had historical importance).</p><p><br /></p><p>I know our bullion coins have used either old allegorical designs (ASE and AGE) or new allegorical designs (the platinum bullion coin) -- which is nice and I always thought added to their popularity.&nbsp; However i wonder if this country will ever take a circulating modern coin and design a new allegorical liberty concept.</p><p><br /></p><p>Anyway, just a few random thoughts i had this morning!</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://mindstar.com/type/Images/25_1796_DB_Obv_Big.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /><img src="https://mindstar.com/type/Images/25_1796_DB_Rev_Big.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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