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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 383134, member: 66&quot;]There is only one true design error on the coin.&nbsp; The olive branch and arrows are in the wrong talons of the eagle.&nbsp; The arrows are in the eagles right talon indicating a preference for war over peace.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>It indicates overseas commerce, a fitting symbol for a dollar to used for trade.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Yes wheat behind her and she sits on a cotton bale. They represent the agricultural trade goods which at the time were our major expoorts.</p><p><br /></p><p>The design had no real influence on the publics dislike for the coin.&nbsp; They accepted just as well as any other silver dollar when it was first issued, possibly even preferring it since it contained more silver.&nbsp; The public did not turn against the coin until the value of the silve it contained began seriously dropping.&nbsp; That brought them flooding back into this country because they were worth more as money here than the silver value that the Asian trading partners would allow for them.&nbsp; But then they ran into the limited legal tender status problem.&nbsp; No merchant wanted to risk getting stuck with them at face value if there was a chance they would be refused if they tried to tender more than five of them at a time.&nbsp; So they would only accept them at a discount. (On the other hand they would gladly accept a standard silver dollar even though it had even less silver because it had an unlimited legal tender status and would not be refused.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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