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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;davidh, post: 476258, member: 15062&quot;]The &quot;Medal Collectors of America&quot; had this to say on the subject:</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Medals of Anthony De Francisci</b></p><p>Anthony DeFrancisci was born in Italy in 1887, coming to New York City as a young man. He studied at Cooper Union, the Art Students League and National Academy of Design. He served as studio assistant to James Earle Fraser, Philip Martiny, Hermon MacNeil, A. A. Weinman and later taught art&nbsp; at Columbia University and the Beaux-Arts Institute in New York City. He&nbsp; died in 1964.&nbsp; During a long career, DeFrancisci created many outstanding&nbsp; works of medallic art and monumental sculptures, including the 1920 Maine Statehood commemorative Half Dollar and the 1921 Peace dollar. The new&nbsp; Dollar was one of the last classic redesigns of the 1907-1921 era and was&nbsp; modeled by his wife Theresa Cafarelli DeFrancisci.&nbsp; This coin was criticized for low relief. </p><p><br /></p><p>A Philadelphia newspaper quoted in Cornelius Vermeule’s indispensable Numismatic Art in America, (Belknap Press of Harvard University, 1971) carped, ``Liberty is growing younger… The young lady has&nbsp; lost her Greek profile. Hellenic beauty has been superseded by the newer&nbsp; `flapper’ type. A sculptor of genius would have put into that face some&nbsp; quality of divinity… the head is merely that of a fairly attractive girl of 17...&nbsp; whose immature chin and half-open mouth merely suggest the expression of&nbsp; her kind. If words were issuing from her lips they would hardly take the&nbsp; elegant languor of `Line’s bizzay!’ They would more probably be `Say,&nbsp; lissen!’’’</p><p><br /></p><p>I don&#039;t know what &quot;Line&#039;s Bizzay&quot; and &quot;Say, Lissen&quot; refer to - they must have been slang or had some other meaning in 1921.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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