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<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\tThe first iteration of Liberty was quite risqu\u00e9, with her right breast exposed, which apparently appalled the women\u2019s movement of the day, as well as clergy and others. According to edmontoncoinclub.com, \u201cThe initial production run of 52,000 pieces had made their way through the Treasury system by January 1917; by then, the production of the \u2018Type 1\u2019 1917 issue was already in full-swing \u2026 but by early 1917 clearly something had to be done. Hermon MacNeil was obliged to modify his design, which he strenuously objected to [an article on uscoinnews.com asserts that MacNeil never authorized the design change], and the reasons that were given to him by the mint were everything from poor striking characteristics, relief problems, die wear, coin wear, anything else but that exposed breast. The dies were modified in time for the 1918 strike (known as \u2018Type 2\u2019), and it featured a now \u2018clad-to-the-neck\u2019 in chain-mail Liberty.\u201d Other changes were made for that casting and there were later revisions.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cThe last run of the Standing Liberty Quarter took place in 1930, with only Philadelphia and San Francisco minting them. None were made in 1931 or 1932, possibly reflecting an oversupply because of the Great Depression, which had decimated the world economy in 1929,\u201d notes the article on edmontoncoinclub.com.<\/p>\n The second controversy \u2013 which is still unresolved \u2013 arose after Doscher died. In 1972, another actress and model, Irene MacDowell, claimed to have been MacNeil\u2019s model. According to various reports, her husband was friends with MacNeil and would not have approved of her modeling for the sculptor, hence, the secrecy. Another rumour is that MacNeil\u2019s wife considered MacDowell a threat to her marriage, and so the sculptor kept her identity hidden.<\/p>\n It may never be known whether MacDowell or Doscher was the real model for the Standing Liberty Quarter, but Doscher was publicly credited, becoming known as known as \u201cthe girl on the Quarter.\u201d And the moniker stuck. As noted on a memorial site for MacNeil (hermonatkinsmacneil.com), \u201c100 years after the birth of Hermon MacNeil and fifty years after the Standing Liberty Quarter was minted, Doris Doscher Baum appeared on the TV quiz show I\u2019ve Got a Secret <\/i>on April 4, 1966.\u201d The video is on YouTube.<\/p>\n There\u2019s even more on this whole topic \u2013 including the reason the Standing Liberty coin was made. According to a blog on greatamericancoincompany.com, \u201cWhen Robert W. Woolley took office as Mint director in April 1915, he asked [Philadelphia Mint superintendent Adam] Joyce to have [Mint chief engraver Charles] Barber submit some new designs for the dime, quarter and half dollar. It seems Woolley misinterpreted a memo from the assistant treasury secretary stating that coin designs could be changed after 25 years. Woolley took it to mean they must be changed and set the redesign wheels in motion.\u201d<\/p>\n Barber\u2019s suggested designs did not impress, and so a few sculptors were asked to make a submission, and MacNeil\u2019s won. In the end, the blog notes, more than 214 million MacNeil quarters were made.<\/p>\n I could have spent as many hours exploring the other clippings I picked for this issue\u2019s theme. I settled on a group that, to me, shows the paper\u2019s diversity, as well as how technology and societal attitudes change over the years.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n![\"image](\"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/oct-24-JI-at-95-clippings.24.FnL-JI-at-95-clippings-Bill-of-Rights-April-4-1947-20251014_135524.jpg\")
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