In 1917 people got so upset about the nipple on the new quarter..

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agentjim007
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Why didn't anybody make a big deal about the sausage hanging on the Buffalo ?

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  • Coinosaurus
    Coinosaurus Posts: 9,658 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    People did not get upset. That is a myth, but it is an easy one to believe since somehow it resonates. Full story in Roger Burdette's Renaissance of American Coinage.
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  • BAJJERFAN
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    << <i>Why didn't anybody make a big deal about the sausage hanging on the Buffalo ? >>



    Because on the Buffalo only the casing is hanging and not the sausage itself!image
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  • ricko
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    Panic would ensue if the buffalo were in mating mode....image Cheers, RickO
  • brg5658
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    This myth (and many others) has long been debunked.
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  • TwoSides2aCoin
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    Women were burning bras when I grew up… and by 1979 the mint put a woman's bun on the face of a dollar and the SHTF in Iran.
    But how about the Eagle ? Ya gotta love coins and cointroversey on the tail end. Funny how times change.
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  • FullStrike
    FullStrike Posts: 4,353 ✭✭✭
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    In 1909 were people really upset with the V.D.B. on the reverse of the new Lincoln Cent?

    I can believe there was an uproar in 1917. Not from 100% of the population but all it takes is a few crybabies.
  • ms70
    ms70 Posts: 13,958 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    It was a wardrobe malfunction.
  • telephoto1
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    I always thought that Standing Lib furor rather odd, considering all the publicly displayed artwork, statues, fountains, etc. featuring nudes that were hailed as high art at the time... yet they had a problem with one nipple that frankly was often poorly struck so as to not be visible in the first place, and even when fully struck, would wear off within a short time in circulation anyway... go figure.

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  • kiyote
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    I know of a US coin that depicts a pair of headless, naked people (adults, man and woman) and another one that shows a bare child's behind. Can anyone name the two coins I'm thinking of?
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  • Wabbit2313
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    << <i>sausage hanging? >>




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  • WaterSport
    WaterSport Posts: 7,064 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    No one complained about this guy - in fact, when you visit the Cook islands - he is exposed everywhere in print, statues, wood carvings decorating religious structures, etc.

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  • Icollecteverything
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    Bad donkey! Or is it bad azz?

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  • CaptHenway
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    << <i>No one complained about this guy - in fact, when you visit the Cook islands - he is exposed everywhere in print, statues, wood carvings decorating religious structures, etc.

    image >>



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  • steveben
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    there is a nipple on the 1917 quarter!?! next thing you know they'll be letting women vote.
  • Baley
    Baley Posts: 22,663 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    The mint gave the ladies equal time when they made the studmuffin Oregon commems

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    << <i>People did not get upset. That is a myth, but it is an easy one to believe since somehow it resonates. Full story in Roger Burdette's Renaissance of American Coinage. >>



    True, there has never been proof of a general protest about the bare breast
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  • LanceNewmanOCC
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    oh man, that is funny.





    Originally posted by: Icollecteverything

    Bad donkey! Or is it bad azz? image




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  • TopographicOceans
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    I'm not sure if it was "people" who complained or just two women in a sewing circle in Iowa?
  • Overdate
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    Originally posted by: kiyote
    I know of a US coin that depicts a pair of headless, naked people (adults, man and woman) and another one that shows a bare child's behind. Can anyone name the two coins I'm thinking of?

    1984 Olympic Silver Dollar and 1915 Pan-Pac Half.

    I wonder if there will be an "uproar" over the gold 2016 SLQ. . .

    (Aside from the price, of course.) image

  • oih82w8
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    A similar, yet earlier outcry over the Educational Series notes around 1899.
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  • pruebas
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    Do you think this offended anyone when it was made?
  • ricko
    ricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Wow pruebas....I have never seen that one before.... must get to coin shows more

    often....image Cheers, RickO
  • braddick
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    Where was the outcry that the "Buffalo" nickel isn't, yet rather portrays a bison.
  • steveben
    steveben Posts: 4,666 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    how 'bout a coin with a sausage and a beaver!

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    edit: not my coin [sigh]
  • giorgio11
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    Originally posted by: kiyote

    I know of a US coin that depicts a pair of headless, naked people (adults, man and woman) and another one that shows a bare child's behind. Can anyone name the two coins I'm thinking of?




    1. 1984 Olympic commemorative silver dollars

    2. 1915-S Pan-Pac halves

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