10-20-2008, 07:46 PM
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Originally Posted by bqcoins  and the image on the mercury dime appears distinctly female??? Or any of the gold indians, or the indian head cent??? just because the image is classical doesn't make it androgynous. As for the "smurf" cap it is a phrygian cap: a soft, conical cap represented in ancient Greek art as part of Phrygian or oriental dress and associated, since the late 18th and early 19th centuries, with the liberty cap. In addition, no eagle on the back of the dime, a wreath, yes reused from the seated series, but only from 1860 as the wreath prior to 1860 was quite different, also the wreath as it was designed in 1860 was quite nice, so why not reuse it. As for the Morgan dollar...it has had its detractors as well, although I find it just as beautiful as the barber dime | The Buzzard Eagle on the Morgan is an acquired taste to say the least
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