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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;The Penny Lady®, post: 705633, member: 16948&quot;]That&#039;s questionable - I posted this on another thread, so I thought I&#039;d post it here for informational purposes:</p><p><br /></p><p>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&#039;s daughter, and there is no known correspondence or records where Longacre dispelled this idea. </p><p><br /></p><p>We&#039;ll probably never know for sure about the attribution of the portrait but the consensus is that it is a composite of the two. <i>See A Guide Book of Flying Eagle and Indian Head Cents</i> (2006) by Richard Snow, pp. 25-26.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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