Liberty Nickels

(1883-1913)

Chester Alan Arthur was in the White House, and Franklin Delano Roosevelt was napping in a nursery in Hyde Park, New York. FDR, after all, was only one year old at the time. Horse-drawn carriages ruled the roads—and in New York City they also reigned supreme on the just-completed Brooklyn Bridge.

The year was 1883, and one year after FDR’s arrival in that nursery, the United States Mint was busy giving birth to a “baby” of its own: the Liberty Head five-cent piece.

The father of the new coin was A. Loudon Snowden, Superintendent of the Philadelphia Mint. Snowden believed that the nation’s three minor coins—the cent, three-cent piece and five-cent piece—should be uniform in design and metallic composition.

In 1881 he directed Chief Engraver Charles E. Barber to prepare suitable sketches for these denominations, with all.... (Expand Text)

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1885 LIBERTY 5C MS67 PCGS

GEM SATIN LUSTROUS SURFACES. THE KEY DATE TO THE LIBERTY NICKEL. TIED FOR HIGHEST GRADED.
$34,650.00

1885 LIBERTY 5C MS67 PCGS

GEM SURFACES. THE KEY DATE TO THE LIBERTY NICKEL SET. TIED FOR HIGHEST GRADED.
$34,650.00

1886 LIBERTY 5C MS66 PCGS

A SATIN GEM. KEY DATE. JUST 2 MS66+ AND 3 MS67 COINS WITH HIGHER GRADES AT PCGS.
$12,000.00

1905 LIBERTY 5C PR68 PCGS

FABULOUS GEM PROOF WITH IRIDESCENT WATERY SURFACES. TIED FOR HIGHEST GRADED. CAC.
$19,250.00

1908 LIBERTY 5C PR68 Cameo NGC

GEM CAMEO PROOF. TIED WITH ONE OTHER COIN FOR THE HIGHEST GRADED.
$8,965.00