Category Archives: Shield & Liberty Head Nickels

[The following excerpt is published courtesy of DLRC Press and its author, Gloria Peters & Cynthia Mohon. This information was originally published in 1995 in The Complete Guide to Shield and Liberty Head Nickels
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History of the Shield Nickel Series
The Shield nickel, first minted 1866, a year after the Civil War ended, was originally intended as a… Continued...

[The following excerpt is published courtesy of DLRC Press and its author, Gloria Peters & Cynthia Mohon. This information was originally published in 1995 in The Complete Guide to Shield and Liberty Head Nickels
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James Barton Longacre

James Barton Longacre, born in 1794, escaped the life of a farmer by leaving his Dela-ware… Continued...

[The following excerpt is published courtesy of DLRC Press and its author, Gloria Peters & Cynthia Mohon. This information was originally published in 1995 in The Complete Guide to Shield and Liberty Head Nickels
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History of the Liberty Head Nickel Series

In 1881 Col. A. Loudon Snowden, Philadelphia mint superintendent, asked Charles E. Barber, the Mint’s chief… Continued...

[The following excerpt is published courtesy of DLRC Press and its author, Gloria Peters & Cynthia Mohon. This information was originally published in 1995 in The Complete Guide to Shield and Liberty Head Nickels
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Charles Edward Barber

Charles Barber was 12 when his family emigrated from England in 1852, settling in Boston, then Providence, R.I. after his father… Continued...

[The following excerpt is published courtesy of DLRC Press and its author, Gloria Peters & Cynthia Mohon. This information was originally published in 1995 in The Complete Guide to Shield and Liberty Head Nickels
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Pattern Coinage – Shield & Liberty Head Nickels
Pattern coinage, or essays, forms one of the more interesting historical areas in numismatics. There are basically… Continued...