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A Major Exhibit at the Whitman Baltimore Expo from the Liberty Seated Collectors Club

The Liberty Seated Collectors Club is pleased to display a major exhibit at the Whitman Baltimore Expo, October 25-27, at Booth #913. Newly-uncovered artifacts from the family of Chief Engraver William Barber (designer of the Trade Dollar and Double Dime – twenty-cent piece) will be on display. This remarkable exhibit includes:

  • Presidential proclamation naming William Barber Engraver, from President Andrew Johnson and Sec. of State William Seward, 1869
  • Paintings of William Barber and wife Anna Maria Barber
  • Medal of William Barber by Charles E. Barber
  • 3 original pencil/pen coin design sketches by William Barber
  • William Barber medals: Centennial Medal, Grant 2nd Inaugural medal
  • Scan of 1875 letter by William Barber about Carson City dies and breakage
  • Example of 1875-CC BF-1 Double Dime (20 cents) from broken reverse die
  • Memo by mint officials on death of William Barber
  • Set of Trade Dollars
  • Set of Double Dimes (20 cents), including one of William Barber’s patterns
  • Medallic History of the United States 1776-1876, 1st Ed, J. Loubat, inscribed to William Barber, 1878

At the LSCC Meeting on Friday October 26 at 9:00 a.m. (everyone is welcome), there will be an educational program, entitled William Barber Revealed! in Room 301.

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There will be a similar exhibit on artifacts from Charles Barber and 6th Chief Engraver of the U.S. Mint, at the adjacent table of the Barber Coin Collectors’ Society. Newly-uncovered artifacts from the family of Charles E. Barber will be on display. The corresponding research completely changes our views on the 6th Chief Engraver. This remarkable exhibit includes:

  • Presidential proclamation naming Charles Barber Engraver, from President Rutherford B. Hayes, 1880
  • Painting of Charles E. Barber
  • Six new photos of Charles Barber
  • Photo showing Charles Barber and George T. Morgan in 1897
  • Three patterns by Charles Barber
  • 1st Ed. Woodin-Adams pattern reference, inscribed to Charles Barber, 1913
  • Key date Barber coins (5c, 10c, 25c, 50c)
  • Barber’s commemoratives, Hawaiian coinage, and Cuban coinage
  • 1905 passport of Charles Barber
  • Memos from mint departments for Barber’s Europe trip, some with his handwritten notes on them
  • Diary of Edith Barber of Europe trip of 1905, with key excerpts
  • 39-star Flag presented to Charles Barber by President Theodore Roosevelt
  • 1906 Mint Assay medal, original case, subject: Theodore Roosevelt
  • Copies of Barber’s 1905 Trip Report, with results matching hand-written notes
  • Letters to Charles Barber from Augustus St. Gaudens and Victor D. Brenner

At the BCCS Meeting on Friday October 26 at 3:00 p.m. (everyone is welcome), there will be an educational program, entitled The Charles Barber You Didn’t Know, in Room 301.

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This extraordinary exhibit will be located at Booth #913. Look for the club banners!

Stack’s Bowers Galleries’ Joel. R. Anderson Collection Part II Auction Realizes Nearly $10 Million for 70 Lots of United States Paper Money

Stack’s Bowers Galleries’ August 16 offering of Part II of the Joel R. Anderson Collection of United States Paper Money in Philadelphia, achieved nearly $10 million as a room full of enthusiasts vied with online bidders to take home unique, extremely rare and finest known pieces, as well as type notes in incredible condition. In all, the 70 lots realized $9,652,860, with two notes bringing over $1 million each and well over a quarter of the lots crossing the $100,000 mark. Continue reading →

Whitman and Q. David Bowers Shine A Spotlight On American Civil War tokens

Described as “a modern-day classic in American Numismatics”, Q. David Bowers’ Guide Book of Civil War Tokens is “not only broader than heretofore undertaken by any other author, it is also deeper in both its historical and economic references.” The venerable Dr. George J. Fuld, too, weighed in, nearly 70 years after he first learned of Civil War tokens: “No book on how to collect Civil War tokens has ever been as thorough. I expect that it will be a standard reference for years to come.”

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