The Standing Liberty quarter was a 25-cent coin struck by the United States Mint from 1916 to 1930. It succeeded the Barber quarter, which had been minted since 1892. Featuring the goddess of Liberty on one side and an eagle in flight on the other, the coin was designed by sculptor Hermon Atkins MacNeil. In 1915, he submitted a design that showed Liberty on guard against attacks. The Mint required modifications, and his revised version included dolphins to represent the oceans. In late 1916, Mint officials made major changes, but MacNeil was allowed to create a new design, which included a chain mail vest covering Liberty's formerly bare breast. In circulation, the coin's date wore away quickly, and Mint engravers modified the design to address the issue in 1925. The Standing Liberty quarter was discontinued in 1931, a year in which no quarters were struck. The Washington quarter was introduced the next year to celebrate the bicentennial of George Washington's birth.
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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:
1753:
Carl Linnaeus published his Species Plantarum, which, with his earlier work Systema Naturae, is considered the beginning of modern botanical nomenclature. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Species_Plantarum
1794:
War of the Pyrenees: France regained nearly all the land it lost to Spain the previous year with its victory in the Second Battle of Boulou. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Battle_of_Boulou
1884:
Moses Fleetwood Walker, the last African American in Major League Baseball until Jackie Robinson, played his first game for the Toledo Blue Stockings. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moses_Fleetwood_Walker
1974:
Argentine President Juan Perón expelled the Montoneros from a demonstration in the Plaza de Mayo in Buenos Aires, forcing the group to become clandestine and later a target of the Dirty War. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expulsion_of_Montoneros_from_Plaza_de_Mayo
1985:
Labor groups in the Philippines established the Bagong Alyansang Makabayan, a political coalition and communist front, in order to challenge the dictatorship of Ferdinand Marcos. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bagong_Alyansang_Makabayan
_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:
prime cut: 1. A top-quality serving of meat. 2. (by extension) Something that represents the best quality in its class. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/prime_cut
___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:
Under oak, ash and thorn My soul was born. Under thorn, oak and ash My body bent to the lash. --Elinor Wylie https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Elinor_Wylie
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