The time period references a selected number of the 1979 Susan B. Anthony greenback coin identifiable by the initials “FG” of the coin’s designer. These initials, representing Frank Gasparro, seem on the obverse of the coin. The presence, prominence, and readability of those initials can have an effect on a coin’s collectibility and potential worth.
These cash, whereas not made from silver regardless of the widespread misnomer, symbolize a selected interval in U.S. coinage. Their designs and any variations provide collectors insights into the minting processes and inventive interpretations of that period. Figuring out varieties like these with discernible designer initials permits numismatists to categorize and probably respect the nuances inside a single 12 months’s mintage.