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Susan B. Anthony dollar

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This is the archived discussion of the TFAR nomination for the article below. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/requests). Please do not modify this page.

The result was: scheduled for Wikipedia:Today's featured article/June 11, 2015 by  — Chris Woodrich (talk) 07:00, 27 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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The Susan B. Anthony dollar was a United States dollar coin minted from 1979 to 1981, when the series was halted due to poor public reception, and again in 1999. Proposed as a smaller replacement for the cumbersome Eisenhower dollar, a number of shapes and compositions were tested, but all were opposed by the vending machine industry. Finally, a round planchet with an eleven-sided inner border was chosen for the smaller dollar. The original design depicted an allegorical representation of Liberty, but organizations and individuals in Congress called for the coin to depict a woman. Social reformer Susan B. Anthony was selected as the design subject. Both sides of the coin were designed by Frank Gasparro, the Chief Engraver of the United States Mint. The Mint struck a large number of coins in anticipation of public demand, but the Susan B. Anthony dollar was poorly received, in part because of confusion caused by its similarity in size and appearance to the quarter. In 1997, Congress passed a law authorizing mintage of the gold-colored Sacagawea dollar. When production did not begin quickly enough to meet demand, a final run of Susan B. Anthony dollars was struck in 1999. (Full article...)



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