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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Treashunt, post: 2140301, member: 6763&quot;]Just legend, not fact</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;However, Sarah Longacre was 30 years old and married in 1858, not 12 as in the tale, and Longacre himself stated that the face was based on a statue of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus_(mythology)" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus_(mythology)" rel="nofollow">Venus</a> in Philadelphia on loan from the Vatican. He did often sketch his elder daughter, and there are resemblances between the depictions of Sarah and the various representations of Liberty on his coins of the 1850s. These tales were apparently extant at the time, as Snowden, writing to Treasury Secretary <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howell_Cobb" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howell_Cobb" rel="nofollow">Howell Cobb</a> in November 1858, denied that the coin was based &quot;on any human features in the Longacre family&quot;.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Head_cent#cite_note-FOOTNOTESnow25.E2.80.9326-14" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Head_cent#cite_note-FOOTNOTESnow25.E2.80.9326-14" rel="nofollow">[10]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Head_cent#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBreen217.E2.80.93218-15" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Head_cent#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBreen217.E2.80.93218-15" rel="nofollow">[11]</a> Lee F. McKenzie, in his 1991 article on Longacre, notes that any artist can be influenced by many things, but calls the story &quot;essentially false&quot;.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Head_cent#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcKenzie1980-16" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Head_cent#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcKenzie1980-16" rel="nofollow">[12]</a>&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Head_cent" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Head_cent" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Head_cent</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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