''But it was pretty obvious-a coin shouldn`t have to be promoted to work,'' Brown said.

There were some discussions about how the government might promote the coin to persuade the public to accept it. ''It hurts my feelings,'' Frank Gasparro told me back then, after the public mood was becoming obvious. The coin was released and the country despised it. He was sure the drawing would be rejected-but the Department of the Treasury, under the Carter administration, thought it was fine. He gave her a square jaw, a hooked nose, a drooping right eye and a heavy browline. In the new one, he tried to approximate what Susan B. Anthony.įeminist groups complained that the drawing made Anthony look ''too pretty.'' A fine arts commission objected to it. He designed the coin with the face of the 28-year-old Susan B. In one, she was 28 in the other, she was 84. There were only two photographs of Susan B. Anthony (who was a famous suffragist) looked like, so he went down to the offices of the old Philadelphia Bulletin and looked up pictures of her in the paper`s library. Gasparro, who was in his late 60s and was living in Philadelphia, had no idea what Susan B. Frank Gasparro, as chief designer for the Mint, was assigned to create it. Anthony dollar coin ran into trouble right from the start.

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