The E-Sylum:  Volume 6, Number 32, August 10, 2003, Article 18

CONTROVERSIAL MISSOURI QUARTER DEBUTS

  Dick Johnson writes: "This is the week the much-criticized
  Missouri quarter is released to the public."   Dick pointed out
  an article by Todd Frankel of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

  "Missouri's state quarter has caused trouble at every turn,
  or flip of the coin.

  It's altered the way the U.S. Mint designs the nation's
  quarters.  It helped foil a marriage and close an art gallery.
  It got a Baltimore newspaperman suspended. And it made
  a demonized celebrity of a Missouri artist."

  http://www.centredaily.com/mld/centredaily/news/6450725.htm
  http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascitystar/6451701.htm

  [Have any of our readers seen the quarters artist Paul
  Jackson affixed with stickers bearing his original design?
  He spent thousands of these as part of his protest against
  the Mint's changes to his design. -Editor]

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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