VIDEO: WESTERN MINT LIBERTY SEATED COINAGE

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VIDEO: WESTERN MINT LIBERTY SEATED COINAGE

The David Lisot Video Library on the Newman Numismatic Portal can be found at:
https://nnp.wustl.edu/library/multimediadetail/522852

We highlight one of his videos each week in The E-Sylum. Here's one from 2005 that features Darrell Low & Leonard Augsburger speaking about Seated coinage from the Western mints. -Editor

Western Mint Liberty Seated Coinage title card

This features historical aspects of Seated coinage from the Western mints from the 1850's through the 1890's including:

How Christian Gobrecht (1785-1844) became chief engraver at the Mint
Use of the screw press to make coins and its limitations
How dies were produced and why it created varieties
Examples of "S" mint seated coinage including branch mint proofs
Discovery of the Comstock Lode in the 1860's and the eventual building of the Carson City mint
Unusual attributes of CC mint coinage
How to tell rare CC die varieties
Story of the 1870 coinage of the San Francisco mint
Eventual closing of the CC Mint in 1893
Resources available for collectors

Speaker(s): Darrell Low & Leonard Augsburger. Publication date: August 20, 2005.

Western Mint Liberty Seated Coinage 1855-S quarter

To watch the complete video, see:
Liberty Seated Coinage of San Francisco and Carson City (https://youtu.be/tuh7I_0iBVQ)

Wayne Homren, Editor

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