Accordingly, not all values were made each year.
This was used in 1807 on the half dollar and half eagle, the largest silver and gold denominations currently being struck.Īt the time the production of different denominations depended on those requested by depositors of silver and gold. In 1807 this began with his portrait of Miss Liberty with a loose cloth mob cap, a motif designated as the Capped Bust design by numismatists. Reich was charged with redesigning the circulating coinage. In 1807 he was hired as an assistant engraver to Robert Scot, who had been at the Mint since its inception.
John Matthias Reich, a talented engraver from Germany, had done commission work for the Mint since the turn of the 19th century.