Teasing Out Bargains Among Barbers
Jan 29, 2021
3 minutes
BY MARK BENVENUTO
(Image courtesy Wikimedia Commons.)
Among the quarter designs of the last hundred years, the Standing Liberty is the only one that we can claim has some serious artistic flair and innovativeness to it. It’s not that the other two are ugly, but collectors in general will agree that they qualify as standard, much like the many European coins of their time. Sure, the Liberty and Washington portraits are not those of kings, but the overall look is pretty much the same, with a head dominating the obverse. This often means that when
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