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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 7992594, member: 66&quot;]The Monstrous Fuss is covered much better in Roger Burdette&#039;s&nbsp; Renaissance of American Coinage books, and frankly it is rather interesting, at least to me.</p><p><br /></p><p>Yes he really didn&#039;t like Charles Barber as an engraver, Burdette doesn&#039;t like him either.&nbsp; On the other hand Barber didn&#039;t like anyone intruding in his engraving department either, and he DID understand the requirements for producing coins better most outside artists.&nbsp; It&#039;s one of the things that doomed the 1890 competition to redesign the dime, quarter, and half.&nbsp; A design competition with three judges, two of which believed that THEY were the only artist qualified to design a coin.&nbsp; (Barber and Saint-Gaudens)</p><p><br /></p><p>Breen&#039;s judgmental assault on the political groups such as the Society for the Suppression of Vice, probably comes from the knowledge of how they would have viewed and treated him.&nbsp; But the nonsense about them objecting to the SLQ is just that nonsense.&nbsp; The plans to make changes in the design began even as the first cons were being released and were underway long before the Society could have even seen the coins.&nbsp; There is NO contemporary evidence of any objection to the bare breast on the coin.&nbsp; (This is most likely one of the cases of Breen just making things up to support his opinion.)&nbsp;&nbsp; Also the change in adding the chain mail covering the breast came from McNeil not from the Mint.&nbsp; The Mint provided a list of changes they wanted with the order that no changes other than the ones listed were to be made.&nbsp; The covering of the breast was not on the list.&nbsp; More than likely it was McNeil&#039;s own idea.&nbsp; The quarter design contains a lot of symbolism in reference to the coming war in Europe, and he probably felt that if you are getting ready for war, you go in protected not half nude.&nbsp; So he added the chain mail corset.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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