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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Collector1966, post: 570081, member: 17919&quot;]Consider the era when these coins were designed--</p><p><br /></p><p>It was the wacky Victorian Age, with its warped sense of &quot;propriety&quot; (in which people covered the legs of their tables and chairs with &quot;leggings&quot; so that male visitors wouldn&#039;t get any ideas about their daughters <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie11" alt=":rolleyes:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> ).</p><p><br /></p><p>Also, think about the endless grief that Anna Williams, the Philadelphia schoolteacher who modeled for the Morgan dollar, got for posing for the coin a few years before (&quot;Only hussies pose for artists!&quot;)</p><p><br /></p><p>I would be surprised if they could have found a female model, after all the flak that Miss Williams took. So it would not surprise me in the least if they found some adolescent male or young man to pose instead, and tried to fix his features so they somewhat resembled a woman&#039;s.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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