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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 2974145, member: 66&quot;]Gobrecht had his name on the 1836 - 39 silver dollars.&nbsp; Longacre&#039;s initial appears on the gold dollar starting in 1849, same for the double eagle.&nbsp; It appears on the cent starting in 1864.&nbsp; Morgans initials are on both sides of the dollar starting in 1878.&nbsp; Barbers initial is found on the dime, quarter, and half dollar starting in 1892.&nbsp; Saint-Gaudens initials are on the double eagle starting in 1907.&nbsp; Bella Pratt&#039;s initials are on the quarter eagle and half eagle starting in 1908.&nbsp; All of these coins had designers initials before the VDB came out.&nbsp; In fact I think the ONLY production coin that didn&#039;t have the designers initial on it in 1909 was the V nickel by William Barber.&nbsp; Hardly evidence that it was frowned upon.</p><p><br /></p><p>By the way the earliest example of a designer &quot;signing&quot; has work on US coins was John Reich starting in 1807.&nbsp; Not initials, but on half dollar dies he created he had a star punch that had a notch on one of the points.&nbsp; He used a normal punch for the first 12 stars, and the punch with the notched point on the 13th star.&nbsp; Usually oriented so it is on the notched point is the one closest to the rim.&nbsp; Not so much signing the design, which he created, but signing the dies that he made.</p><p><br /></p><p>There is also some opinion that the design on the drapery clasp on the capped bust coins is a stylized JR.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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