Who Posed For The Fifty-Cents And Dime Coin?
By Bart Anderson A silent star who played before the camera in the nude? It sounds inconceivable, yet it happened, and that is only a fragment of Audrey Munson’s extraordinary story. Audrey Munson was once called “The most perfect, most versatile, most famous of American Models, whose face and figure have inspired thousands of modern masterpieces of sculpture and painting.” It was not an exaggeration. Sadly, Audrey’s career is the classic tale of meteoric rise and tragic downfall. In her youth, Munson modeled for countless public and private works. She has adorned Jay P. Morgan’s yacht, Mercury Head Dime coin, the Walking Liberty Half-dollar, and art held at the Museum of Modern Art as well as in the estates of John D. Rockefeller and George Vanderbilt. At the peak of her career she was selected as the primary female model for the 1915 Panama Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco, eventually appearing in thousands of feet of mural decoration and scores of statues. She also
