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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kaparthy, post: 1025622, member: 57463&quot;]Well, the Capped Bust was known as &quot;John Reich&#039;s Fat Mistress.&quot;&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>To answer the questions: </p><p>The collecting community names and renames the coins, apart from any official designations.&nbsp; If you read the trade publications, you will that some are very fussy about never referring to nicknames such as the Mercury Dime.&nbsp; Liberty Seated or Seated Liberty?&nbsp; Once an editorial decision is made, it is cut in stone.</p><p><br /></p><p>Coinage types used to be consistent across the entire series to better announce the Nation unambiguously.&nbsp; It was carried over from the fact that the monarch (duke, count, whoever) was always portrayed, though, in fact, the portraits and portrayals might not be consistent across the series.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p><b>Note</b> also (puns are starting to bubble up here), that paper money did not have the same consistent presentations.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>What <b>changed</b> with coins was President Theodore Roosevelt&#039;s getting Augustus Saint Gaudens to create the $20.&nbsp; Also, I believe -- cannot prove -- that by 1900, the USA recognized that its place in the world allowed it coins to be accepted without needing to be consistent in emblem and device.&nbsp; Thus, the way was cleared for the other designers.</p><p><br /></p><p>I think that we will see a return to effiigies of Liberty when larger coin denominations come out, as is inevitable.&nbsp; A $5 coin would be the perfect entry way.&nbsp; This summer, I saw a pizza shop whose sign lacked a decimal point and I wondered how long it would be until a pizza actually costs $899.&nbsp; It will happen eventually.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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