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<p>[QUOTE="bradgator2, post: 4471243, member: 110679"]I had never heard of the dolphin part. Were any actually minted with those?</p><p><br /></p><p>edit, added:</p><p>"On July 18, Woolley wrote to a numismatic enquirer that the new quarters would begin to be struck about September 1. By the time of that letter, he had resigned as Mint Director to become head of publicity for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodrow_Wilson" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodrow_Wilson" rel="nofollow">President Wilson's</a> reelection campaign; Fred H. Chaffin became acting director. On August 18, Wilson nominated Woolley's successor, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Johannes_Hugo_von_Engelken" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Johannes_Hugo_von_Engelken" rel="nofollow">Friedrich Johannes Hugo von Engelken</a>, who was promptly confirmed by the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate" rel="nofollow">Senate</a>. Von Engelken was supposed to be sworn in on the 21st; his swearing in was delayed until September 1 by President Wilson's failure to sign his commission. One of von Engelken's first acts as Mint Director was to inform MacNeil of McAdoo's acceptance of the design changes, telling him he could place his monogram (a small "M") on the coin; it appears on the wall, to the right of the two low steps which Liberty descends. The bronze casts were made by the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medallic_Art_Company" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medallic_Art_Company" rel="nofollow">Medallic Art Company</a>; on September 6, MacNeil wrote to von Engelken that they would shortly be shipped to the Philadelphia Mint.</p><p><br /></p><p>By this time, the Mint had experienced considerable difficulties in initiating production of both the dime and half dollar. In the hope of heading off similar problems with the quarter, Mint officials decided to reexamine MacNeil's designs, and subsequently, to adjust them. A number of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pattern_coin" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pattern_coin" rel="nofollow">pattern coins</a> were struck, and von Engelken decided to abandon the dolphins version. By mid-October, patterns with a modified version of MacNeil's original obverse were being struck."[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="bradgator2, post: 4471243, member: 110679"]I had never heard of the dolphin part. Were any actually minted with those? edit, added: "On July 18, Woolley wrote to a numismatic enquirer that the new quarters would begin to be struck about September 1. By the time of that letter, he had resigned as Mint Director to become head of publicity for [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodrow_Wilson']President Wilson's[/URL] reelection campaign; Fred H. Chaffin became acting director. On August 18, Wilson nominated Woolley's successor, [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Johannes_Hugo_von_Engelken']Friedrich Johannes Hugo von Engelken[/URL], who was promptly confirmed by the [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate']Senate[/URL]. Von Engelken was supposed to be sworn in on the 21st; his swearing in was delayed until September 1 by President Wilson's failure to sign his commission. One of von Engelken's first acts as Mint Director was to inform MacNeil of McAdoo's acceptance of the design changes, telling him he could place his monogram (a small "M") on the coin; it appears on the wall, to the right of the two low steps which Liberty descends. The bronze casts were made by the [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medallic_Art_Company']Medallic Art Company[/URL]; on September 6, MacNeil wrote to von Engelken that they would shortly be shipped to the Philadelphia Mint. By this time, the Mint had experienced considerable difficulties in initiating production of both the dime and half dollar. In the hope of heading off similar problems with the quarter, Mint officials decided to reexamine MacNeil's designs, and subsequently, to adjust them. A number of [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pattern_coin']pattern coins[/URL] were struck, and von Engelken decided to abandon the dolphins version. By mid-October, patterns with a modified version of MacNeil's original obverse were being struck."[/QUOTE]
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