Were Nipples On Coins Ever Acceptable?

Bare breasted woman are more common than most realize, almost daily overlooked. Nearly all government buildings have statues and portraits in public view, even local ones. Coinage design of the time was no different where art pertains. So when they were released it was simply accept as such.

France 100 francs 1993:

The obverse design is taken from a painting by Delacroix that also formed the basis for the design of the contemporary 100F banknote.

Top stamp is a modern lithographed fake.

In my opinion, outside of classical times - no. Such coins sexualised and degraded women to the level of objects, allegorical or not. The Standing Liberty quarter was rightly covered up and in 1930 a series of stamps showing the "Naked Meja" from Spain were also roundly condemned and part of the 1929/1930 stamp issue blow out there which led to the destruction of the Spanish royal regime at the time.

To me modern coins showing breasts are tasteless. I think there is some coin from some African country like Guinea or Niger (Some Francophone thing) and it has a big breasted woman called Femme Somba and I consider the tackiest and nastiest coin ever made (Part of that c1970 gold and silver coin set craze in "Third World" countries that ensured such coins will never be worth over melt).

As for the French, well their attitude towards sexuality has always been rather liberal by our British and Northern European standards. I think its Catholic permissiveness vs Protestant abstinence. Many of their stamps are full of "oh la la" women and the French Polynesia stamps are basically all soft in my opinion beautiful women wearing next to nothing but flowers and a smile.

I forgot I actually have a note with breasts. Personally I think it's well done, and it was common for its time.

That's actually not true at all. There was no instance of people upset about the bare breasts. The major uproar was that a bare body looked weak and unprotected.

https://www.coinworld.com/voices/ge...over-up.html


https://www.smithsonianmag.com/hist...t-180962088/


Even the article you posted states that: "
However, the amount of influence generated by the public is open to speculation as well. Some historians indicate that public outcry was minuscule and had no effect on the upcoming redesign of the Standing Liberty quarter. Other historians believe it was a major influence on the redesign of the Standing Liberty quarter. Unfortunately, there is no solid evidence indicating which perspective is correct."

But never the less welcome aboard!

Correct, the same can be said about war time "nickels" as the amount of nickel saved was minuscule. The prevailing wisdom being to save nickel for the war effort but propaganda that the mint was also "doing its part" makes as much sense.

Although, for the SLQ I don't believe morality was much an issue as several large notes had breasts including the $20 large note I posted.

Personally I want to preface I like nudity (except for fat old guys, you can keep your clothes on). I would love to have coins like the 1916/1917 SLQ and $20 National Currency back in circulation. I'm done with old guys in our currency and coins!

Of course, it's almost dead center on the Libertad.