The Barber coinage consists of a dime, quarter, and half dollar designed by United States Bureau of the Mint Chief Engraver Charles E. Barber. They were minted between 1892 and 1916, though no half dollars were struck in the final year of the series. For much of the second half of the 19th century, most U.S. silver coins bore a design of a seated Liberty.
About Barber coinage in brief
The Barber coinage consists of a dime, quarter, and half dollar designed by United States Bureau of the Mint Chief Engraver Charles E. Barber. They were minted between 1892 and 1916, though no half dollars were struck in the final year of the series. By the late 1880s, there were increasing calls for the replacement of the Seated Liberty design, used since the 1830s on most denominations of silver coins. In 1915, Mint officials began plans to replace them once the design’s minimum term expired in 1916. The Mint issued Barber dimes and quarters in 1916 to meet commercial demand, but before the end of the year, the Mercury dime, Standing Liberty quarter and Walking Liberty half dollar had begun production. Most dates in the Barber coin series are not difficult to obtain, but the 1894 dime struck at the San Francisco Mint, with a mintage of 24, is a great rarity. For much of the second half of the 19th century, most U.S. silver coins bore a design of a seated Liberty. This design had been created by Thomas Sully, an artist and engraver at the United States Mint in Philadelphia, after a sketch by Thomas Christian Sully in the late 1830s. The design reflected an English influence and was increasingly disliked in the U. S. In 1876, The Galaxy magazine said of the current silver coins: “Why do we have the ugliest money of all civilized nations? The design is commonplace, commonplace, and tasteless, and the execution is like thereunto, characterless, and execution is rather like the execution of medals rather than the coins” They have rather rather the appearance of a young woman sitting on nothing in nothing, looking over her shoulder, wearing nothing to speak of, wearing her shoulder over her head.
They have nothing to do with the poor, and nothing at all to say about the poor. They are nothing in particular, nothing at nothing. Why do you want to have a woman sitting in nothing on nothing wearing nothing, over her shoulders, looking at nothing? That is nothing to say at all. Why should you want a woman wearing nothing on her shoulder? Why not a man wearing nothing? Why don’t you have a man in a suit, a woman in a dress, a man with a beard, and a woman with a baby in the middle of the night? Why do we want a man sitting on a chair with a hat on his head, with a woman on his shoulder, with his head on his shoulders, and with a man on his back? Why should we have a lady sitting on the back of a chair, with her on the front of the couch, with the head on her back, and not the other way around? What is the difference between the two? What’s the difference? The difference is that the woman sits on the chair and the man stands on the floor, and so does the man on the ground. And the two are the same.
You want to know more about Barber coinage?
This page is based on the article Barber coinage published in Wikipedia (as of Nov. 06, 2020) and was automatically summarized using artificial intelligence.
