 The Seated Liberty dollar was a dollar coin struck by the United States Mint from 1840 to 1873 and designed by its chief engraver , Christian Gobrecht . It was the last silver coin of that denomination to be struck before passage of the Coinage Act of 1873 , which temporarily ended production of the silver dollar for American commerce . The coin 's reverse design was based on the Great Seal of the United States .

Seated Liberty dollar

The coin is sometimes called the Coronet dollar because of the Liberty Coronet that appears on the obverse, a design that first appeared on the 1836 half e