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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Dimedude2, post: 3063814, member: 17539&quot;]Ok, we have a bare breast discrepancy here!!</p><p><br /></p><p>I have J.H. Cline&#039;s book on Standing Liberty Quarters, Fourth edition, 2007</p><p><br /></p><p>page 32:</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;In this very first design by Herman MacNeil, Miss Liberty is topless. When the original design was about to be changed to the Type II design, Secretart W.G. McAdoo states in the last paragraph of his petition (see 1st session, 65th Congress Report No. 78 on page 32), &#039;... the artist has found that they were not true to the original design and that a great improvement can be made in the artisitic value and appearance of the coin by making the slight changes the act contemplates...&#039;</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Nothing could be further than the truth! </b>The truth is that they wanted to cover Miss Liberty&#039;s bust, as the Congressmen&#039;s wives were opposed to the bare breasts. They call it everything else.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>OK, so what is the real truth behind this? Was Cline, an acknowledged expert&nbsp; in Standing Liberty Quarters, wrong?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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