1 Dollar "Seated Liberty" · “Seated Liberty”

Seated Liberty: The Half-Century That Defined American Silver

For most of the 1800s, nearly every silver coin in an American pocket showed the same figure: Liberty, seated on a rock, shield in one hand, liberty cap raised on a pole in the other. It was the longest-running design in U.S. silver history — and it carried the country through a gold rush, a civil war, and the law collectors still call "the Crime of '73."