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Message:: [QUOTE="jody526, post: 11909, member: 578"]The Answers To: More Trivia 1) What American coin was popularly known as the "Blowsy Barmaid"? 2) Who was the model for Hermon MacNeil's beatiful quarter? 3) What unusual and seldom noticed innovation did Barber introduce to the coinage of the United States with the appearance of his quarter and half dollar in 1892? First to answer all three correctly will receive one "attaboy" (or attagirl). And the answers are: 1) None of the Liberty Heads, utilized on the large copper cents, challenged existing standards of artistic excellence, and were known by such uncomplimentary names as "Silly Head" and "Booby Head".The public was particularly unappreciative of the 1808-1814 Classic Head type, which presented "a sleepy-looking Liberty, turbaned with a diaphanous nightcloth", and promptly dubbed her the "Blowsy Barmaid". 2) MacNeil acknowledged that his rendition of a standing, or striding, armed Liberty, was inspired by Roty's "Sowing Marianne" of the French silver coinage.The actual model was 22-year-old Miss Dora Doscher (later Mrs. H.W. Baum), who also posed for New York City's Pulitzer Memorial Fountain and the famous "Diana" that reposes in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, both figures by Karl Bitter. 3)The stars on the obverse of both coins are six-pointed, while those on the reverse are the first five-pointed stars to appear on United States coins.[/QUOTE]