Common Coin Misnomers

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That's questionable - I posted this on another thread, so I thought I'd post it here for informational purposes:

According to historical records and correspondence from the designer of the Indian Head cent, James B. Longacre, this is not exactly true. Longacre himself stated that the design came from a statue of Venus Crouching. But then legend arose that the profile was that of Longacre's daughter, and there is no known correspondence or records where Longacre dispelled this idea.

We'll probably never know for sure about the attribution of the portrait but the consensus is that it is a composite of the two. See A Guide Book of Flying Eagle and Indian Head Cents (2006) by Richard Snow, pp. 25-26.

 

This is an article written on aug 14 1909 buy Members of her family asking to have her likeness restored.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?_r=1&res=9506E1DF1438E033A25753C2A96E9C946897D6CF

 

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