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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 1426565, member: 66&quot;]No I don&#039;t and Comstock never did actively petition to have the design changed. (It would have been rather difficult for him to have done so considering he died in Sept 1915 over a year before the quarter appeared.)&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>There was no public outcry over the coin, the Mint never order the breast to be covered.&nbsp; In fact they did specify changes to be made to the design, and specifically said no changes other than the ones ordered should be made.&nbsp; MacNeil changed the design and added the chain mail on his own.&nbsp; In fact the legislation passed to allow for the changes specifies:</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;No changes shall be made in the emblems or devices used.&nbsp; The modifications shall consist of the changing the position of the eagle, the arrangement of the stars and lettering, and a slight concavity given to the surface.&nbsp; Such changes shall be made and completed on or before July first, nineteen hundred and eighteen.&quot;&nbsp; The legislation was passed July 9th 1917.</p><p><br /></p><p>The public outcry story of obscenity is a myth.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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