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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;KBBPLL, post: 26059627, member: 104064&quot;]I&#039;d like to get one someday too, as a Barber coin (reverse from a sketch by Morgan). This quote from wikipedia cracked me up. </p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;The event [Columbian Exposition] had been authorised by Congress two years previously; that legislation created a Board of Lady Managers and a Board of Gentleman Managers to oversee the fair. The Board of Lady Managers was headed by Bertha Palmer, whose husband Potter owned the Palmer House, the leading hotel in Chicago. The decisions of the Lady Managers were often reversed by their male counterparts on controversial matters: for example, Palmer sought to shut the fair&#039;s &quot;Egyptian Girls&quot; dancing show after deeming it obscene. The show was one of the exposition&#039;s few successful moneymakers, and the Lady Managers were overruled by the men.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>Dudes will be dudes. I&#039;m picturing what a troupe of Egyptian dancing girls looked like in 1892. Juxtaposed with this objection from Mint Director Leech - &quot;Leech was not fully satisfied with the proposal, stating that the juxtaposition of Isabella on the obverse and the Morgan reverse was &#039;too much woman&#039;.&quot; No such thing as too much woman, Mr. Leech.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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