Production of patterns continued into 1873, but the denomination of the pattern coins was changed from "commercial dollar" to "trade dollar" before the bill was signed into law.
The denomination was sometimes described as "Southern culture at prayer".
On June 6, Mint Director Mary Brooks testified before a congressional committee, and responding to concerns that only the two least-popular denominations would be changed, agreed to support the temporary redesign of the quarter as well.
"I think the change is that the denomination is purposely at the point where we know we have to open up the doors for more ethnics to be involved in leadership roles in the convention," he said.
Brooks testified again, and responding to criticism that only the two least popular denominations were to be changed, indicated her support for a Bicentennial quarter as well.
The court said that the standard was mandatory but could be changed by amending the denomination's constitution; moreover, presbyteries and congregations were not allowed to create their own standards for ordination, as some had done.
At Roosevelt's instigation, Shaw had the Mint (part of the Department of the Treasury) hire Saint-Gaudens to redesign five denominations of US coinage that could be changed without an Act of Congress: the cent and the four gold pieces (the quarter eagle, half eagle, eagle and double eagle).
Treasury Secretary Shultz, advised by a panel of judges, would decide which design would be used for which denomination the inscription would be changed to and for the higher denominations.
While most of the denominations are tiny, many are not.
Had the denominations been $2 and $6 or $0 and $5, there may have been a better chance of detecting differences.
The $50 000 denomination was the first denomination to use the Optically Variable Ink technique, on the value positioned at the top right of the obverse.
