History of the Standing Liberty Quarter

1916 and Inflatable Movie Screen the seri continu through 1930. A mere 52,Th first Stand Liberti Quarter coin came of the Philadelphia press on Decemb 16.000 piec were mint in those last two week of 1916 and were releas to the public along with 1917 date coin in earli 1917. Legend ha it that shortli after the releas there wa a public outcri over the expos right breast of Ladi Liberty. Other complain that the small eagl look like a pigeon. Whether thi led to the design chang is not well document as there were also stack issu with the Type I coins. In ani event, the design wa chang in 1917 to cover the right breast with chain-mail as well as minor chang to the back of the coin which move three star beneath the eagle, therebi rais and center the eagle. Thu wa born the Type II Stand Liberti Quarter.

0,Histori of Stand Liberti Quarter

and chang to gold coinage,Th radic chang in our coinag that wa take place in the earli 20th centuri wa not quit done by 1916. With the new Lincoln cent and Buffalo nickel now in circulation. it wa now time for a chang in silver, specifically, the dime, quarter and half dollar to undergo a facelift and elimin the uninterest Barber designs. In late 1915 a design competit wa announc to replac the design on the dime, quarter and half dollar. In 1916, Mint Director Robert Woollei told Mint Chief Engraver Charl Barber that Hermon Atkin MacNeil' design had been accept for the quarter and that MacNeil would be visit the Mint to obtain inform about prepar the need relief models. As Walter Breen write in hi book entitl Complet Encyclopedia of U.S and Coloni Coins, Barber wa as usual, complet uncooperative. Assistant engrav Georg Morgan, who would later becom chief engrav upon Barber' death, wa appar more helpful. In late Mai of 1916, with Morgan' help, MacNeil' model that could be us for fie prepar were approved.