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<b>Jamesb> Barton Longacre - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Longacre is probably best known for designing the Indian Head cent, but was also responsible for the designs of the Shield nickel, Flying Eagle cent, two-cent piece, en.wikipedia.org /wiki/James_Barton_Longacre

<b>JAMESb> BARTON LONGACRE Longacre did other commission work from time to time, quite possibly including certain dies for private California coiners (Dubosq is a strong possibility; the principals of that firm left Philadelphia to seek their fortunes in the Land of Gold). In October 1985 in The Numismatist, in "Longacre, Unsung Engraver of the U.S. Mint," an article by Tom DeLorey, sketched the biography of this important 19th-century man, an engraver who was misunderstood in his time, but who later became a household word in the numismatic community. In 1867, Longacre and Anthony C. Paquet (who worked as an assistant engraver at the Mint, but who was now back in the private sector, but doing contract work for the Mint) redesigned and/or modified certain coins for the government of Chile. www.uspatterns.com /uspatterns/jambarlon.html

Indian Cents from BestCoin.Com It was designed by <b>Jamesb> Barton Longacre, the Engraver at the Philadelphia Mint. The Director of the Mint, <b>Jamesb> Ross Snowden, wrote a letter on November 4, 1858, to Secretary of the Treasury Howell Cobb, suggesting that a change be made in the design of the Flying Eagle cent. When the coin was first produced, Longacre's initials did not appear on the coin, but beginning in 1864, a small "L" was added. www.bestcoin.com /indian.htm

Gold Dollars - About U.S. Coins from Coin World The Coronet gold dollar was designed by <b>Jamesb> Barton Longacre, the Chief Engraver of the U.S. Mint during the mid 19th century (he also designed such coins as the Flying Eagle and Indian Head cents, and the Indian Head $3 gold coin). Longacre used the same Liberty portrait on a variety of denominations, changing her headdress to change her overall appearance (although the facial features are obviously similar from denomination to denomination). Longacre also placed a different wreath on the reverse. www.coinworld.com /NewCollector/Spotlight/GoldDollar.asp

HBF Core Collection - Browsing object 6087 <b>Jamesb> Barton Longacre was Engraver of the Mint from 1844 until his death, January 1, 1869. LONGACRE is spelled out at lower right obverse. Longacre was one of several engravers involved in creating designs for various pattern issues. www.harrybassfoundation.org /objects.asp?id=6087

Numismatic Information And both were designed by <b>Jamesb> Barton Longacre, the U.S. Mint's chief sculptor-engraver. Unfortunately, however, it had a major shortcoming of its own: Longacre had made the relief on the obverse too high, and the overwhelming majority of the coins were less than fully struck as a result. By 1854, however, when Snowden ordered the changes, Longacre had a new model available: He had just designed the $3 gold piece, and he patterned the new gold dollar after that. www.collectorusa.com /library.php?page=other&id=84

Family Tree Maker's Genealogy Site: User Home Pages: The Stephen & Verna Rich Family Home Page One Thousand Compete For Design Between 1828 and 1840 <b>Jamesb> Barton Longacre was the chief engraver of the United States mint in Philadelphia. Longacre wracked his brain for some original and singular design that would strike the judge, but for months he failed to satisfy himself. The story of how Sarah Longacre Keen became the model for the Indian Penny is herewith reprinted from the Philadelphia Record: Mrs. www.familytreemaker.com /users/r/i/c/Stephen-J-Rich/index.html

United States three cent coin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The term "trimes" is often used today for these coins but that was first used by the director of the U.S. Mint (<b>Jamesb> Ross Snowden) at the time of their production. Starting in 1854, the three cent silver had its silver metal content raised to 90% in order to encourage circulation. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/United_States_three_cent_coin

Information about the 1855-O INDIAN HEAD GOLD DOLLAR coin At Snowden's request, Longacre made the original dies of the $3 piece broader than originally planned to minimize any chance that the new coins could be mistaken for either quarter eagles or half eagles. Actually, this head did not represent any Native American; it was another of Longacre's numerous copies of the Venus Accrouple, or "Crouching Venus," a Roman marble in one of the Philadelphia museums. For reverse, Longacre copied the device originally chosen for the $3 coin but more familiar on the Flying Eagle cents: a wreath of corn, cotton, maple, and possibly tobacco leaves enclosing value and date. www.usrarecoininvestments.com /collecting/1855o-ihgd-s.htm

Liberty Head Dollar (Type 1) By order of Mint Director Col. <b>Jamesb> Ross Snowden the dollar was redesigned increasing its diameter in 1853. The 1851 is by far the most “common” example of this type and can be found in mint state. When the Type II dollars began production in 1854 banks were ordered to return all Type I small dollars to the New York Subtreasury. dboitnott.home.mindspring.com /charlotte/t1_dollar.html

Welcome to The New-York Historical Society This portrait of Andrew Jackson, first published by B.O. Tyler of Washington in 1824, was based on a miniature by Joseph Wood. The print shown here was Longacre's own copy. www.nyhistory.org /presidential/jackson5.html

Isaac <b>Jamesb> (1598 - 1636) Biography, Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews <b>Jamesb> Francis Edward Stuart was a king without a throne: the uncrowned heir of King <b>Jamesb> VII and II. <b>Jamesb>’ paintings are powerful and show a strong demonstration of elegant reductive form. Curator of the Whitney Gallery of Western Art Sarah Boehme explains, John <b>Jamesb> Audubon is associated with artistic images of birds, with conservation issues, and with geographic locations of the Deep South. wwar.com /masters/j/james-isaac.html

HBF Core Collection - Browsing object 6036 <b>Jamesb> Barton Longacre prepared this obverse die featuring a head of Liberty with a decidedly French influence. Mint Director <b>Jamesb> Ross Snowden commented that this reverse design was deliberately prepared to admit perfect striking of the head on the obverse. The reverse features a "cereal wreath" composed of cotton, tobacco, sugar cane, corn, wheat, and oak leaves. www.harrybassfoundation.org /objects.asp?id=6036

Coronet Type 1 Double Eagle 1850-1866 Longacre, whose initials JBL appear on Liberty’s neck, survived the campaign, and developmental patterns were struck in silver without a date in early 1850. North Carolina Congressman <b>Jamesb> Iver McKay, a powerful member of the House Ways and Means Committee, had already prepared legislation authorizing the smallest U.S. gold coin, the gold dollar. Longacre used a similar Liberty for both the dollar and $20, a handsome woman’s head displaying a meticulous nose and wearing a pearl-bordered diadem inscribed LIBERTY. www.oldcoinshop.com /coinhistory/20-1850-66.htm

<b>Jamesb> Barton Longacre LONGACRE, <b>Jamesb> Barton, engraver, born in Delaware county, Pennsylvania, 11 August, 1794: died in Philadelphia, 1 January, 1869. You are in: Museum of History >> Hall of North and South Americans >> <b>Jamesb> Barton Longacre With <b>Jamesb> Herring, of New York, and afterward alone, he issued the "National Portrait Gallery of Distinguished Americans," in which many of the engravings were from sketches by his own hand (3 vols., New York, 1834-'9). www.famousamericans.net /jamesbartonlongacre

HBF Core Collection - Detail for object 6087 Narrative: <b>Jamesb> Barton Longacre's Indian Princess design—or at least a variation of her head—graced the obverse of the regular-issue gold dollars of 1856-1889, as well as the regular-issue $3 gold coinage of 1854-1889. Dies by <b>Jamesb> B. Longacre, and signed as such below Liberty on the obverse. Obverse Design: Longacre's "Indian Princess" design, here seated to left, liberty pole and cap in right hand, left hand on globe, Western Hemisphere depicted on globe, ribbon on globe reads LIBERTY, LONGACRE in tiny letters near globe, furled flags behind Liberty, 13 stars around, date below. www.harrybassfoundation.org /objectdetail.asp?id=6087

Otho Holland Williams <b>Jamesb> Barton Longacre copied most of the museum portrait's elements for his engraved portrait of Williams published in The National Portrait Gallery of Distinguished Americans (1834-1839). In the engraving, Williams wears a white stock and a Cincinnati medal (Longacre also altered the trim on Williams's waistcoat to brocade and buttoned his collar). www.cr.nps.gov /museum/exhibits/revwar/image_gal/indeimg/williams.html

Three cent coin Its small size made designing the coin problematic and the head engraver of the United States Mint, <b>Jamesb> Barton Longacre, created a shield superimposed on a six-pointed star for the front of the three-cent coin and a Roman numeral "III" for the back. The new three-cent coin was the smallest United States silver coin ever made. ks.essortment.com /threecentcoin_rlzk.htm

Jewels of the Bass Collection <b>Jamesb> B. Longacre's design of a Liberty Head with coronet and garnished Heraldic Eagle was minted from 1849 to 1907. The Liberty Head design by <b>Jamesb> Barton Longacre was the first of three major gold-dollar types. The $20 gold pieces were issued in two basic designs, each divisible into several types. www.harrybassfoundation.org /jewel.asp

Small Indian Head Dollar (Type 2) This coupled with the high relief of Longacre’s Indian Head design immediately lead to problems with weakness in the strike. Banks were returning coins as “badly worn” within the year. The dollar was redesigned to increase its diameter thus reducing its thickness. dboitnott.home.mindspring.com /charlotte/t2_dollar.html

<b>Jamesb> Barton Longacre/Elizabeth Stiles Name: Eliza Huldah Longacre Born: 5 MAY 1837 at: Philadelphia, Pa. Married: 10 MAY 1866 at: Philadelphia, Pa. Died: 28 SEP 1912 at: Spouses: Horatio Curtis Jr. www.pennock.ws /surnames/fam/fam10489.html

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20th Century U.S. Coins <b>Jamesb> Barton Longacre, the designer of the "Indian Head" cent, used his daughter Sarah as his model for Liberty wearing an Indian headdress. Also known as the "Coronet Type Double Eagle," this gold coin was designed by <b>Jamesb> Longacre, who also designed the Indian Head Cent. <b>Jamesb> Fraser used three different Indian Chiefs as models to create the composite profile on the obverse of the Indian Head Nickel (also called the Buffalo nickel). www.rrcoins.net /20th_Century_Coins.htm

Double Eagle In February 1849,Congress authorized the striking of $20 gold coins, which were created by the very talented Chief-Engraver <b>Jamesb> Barton Longacre. This coin is one of two trial patterns struck on March 12, 1850, even though it bears the date 1849. americanhistory.si.edu /collections/numismatics/doubleea/doubleea.htm

Picture History - <b>Jamesb> Madison at Age 82 (1751-1836) It is from a drawing by <b>Jamesb> Barton Longacre, taken from life at Madison's home at Montpelier, Virginia, July 1833. This engraved portrait of an elderly <b>Jamesb> Madison is by T. Welch. Custom requests may take up to two weeks to be fulfilled and require an additional charge. www.picturehistory.com /find/p/12492/mcms.html

The Thomas Jefferson Papers - 1743 to 1827 Timeline - (American Memory from the Library of Congress) [Benjamin Rush, half-length portrait, seated at desk, facing right] Engraving by <b>Jamesb> Barton Longacre, 1794-1869, from painting by Thomas Sully, 1783-1872. Thomas Jefferson to <b>Jamesb> Madison September 24, 1814 The government's own library was lost in August when the British burned the Capitol in Washington, D.C. In January 1815, Congress purchases Jefferson's library for $23,950, and it is shipped to Washington by wagon in May. Jefferson's library becomes the foundation for the collections of the Library of Congress. memory.loc.gov /ammem/mtjhtml/mtjtime3d.html

Untitled Peter's first wife was Sarah Barton and they had two children.......the eldest was <b>Jamesb> Barton LONGACRE, who was head of the Philadelphia Mint until his death on 1 Jan 1869. Peter LONGACRE married (2) Hannah Martin, d/o Caleb Martin and Hannah Pierce. My LONGACRE'S arrived in New Sweden (Chester County, PA) in 1643 on the "Kalmer Nyckel" and after William Penn and the English arrived, the LONGACRE's in time married into many of the English familys. jamesgenealogy.com /barbaraMcCormick.html

Information about the 1850 ONE DOLLAR GOLD coin After Gobrecht's death in 1844, <b>Jamesb> Barton Longacre obtained the Mint engravership through his friend John C. Calhoun a name anathema to the Pennsylvania dynasties then running the Mint. Mint Director <b>Jamesb> Ross Snowden ordered them shipped to the Philadelphia Mint, where they were melted down and recoined into "Type III" gold dollars, quarter eagles, and double eagles. Rep. <b>Jamesb> Iver McKay (D.-N.C.) introduced a bill on Jan 25, 1849, to authorize mintage of gold dollars; in February, he amended it to authorize $20 coins as well. www.usrarecoininvestments.com /collecting/1850-one-dol-gold.htm

1857 Postal History & Coin Page I surmise that the essay that was submitted by Nesbitt for postal stationery was produced in 1851 and retained by Longacre at the mint until turned over to Nesbitt in 1857. In addition, there are two examples of a similar coin pattern imprinted on glazed card that exist for the 1849 gold dollar, also from the Longacre papers and owned by the Library Company of Philadelphia. Longfield informed me that there was no Head of Washington at the Mint that he thought suitable for the purpose, nor could he tell me of anyone capable of producing what I required. www.rfrajola.com /features/coins/1857coinpage.htm

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