Treasury Secretary McAdoo, having moved heaven and earth to get Congress to allow modifications to MacNeil's new quarter design in early 1917, was confronted with the fanatical demands of the Society for the Suppression of Vice, who simply could not live with quarters that had the exposed breast of Liberty upon them. Demanding a recall of those in circulation and the immediate cessation of further issue, McAdoo bowed to Epstein's Law (Mankind will satisfy his needs and desires with the least possible exertion) and directed Mint Engraver Charles E. Barber to redress this offense as it were, including MacNeil's quarter modifications.

Liberty would now be fully clothed in a medieval chain mail, a likely nod to the sudden involvement in World War I which America had avoided in the three prior years. The other legal modifications of MacNeil were also adopted, and new hubs were engraved and dies formed. Soon the Type 2 quarters were sliding down the coining chutes into bins for distribution into commerce. No attempt was made to recall the existing Type 1 coins in circulation. Remarkably Congress did not seem to notice this additional change, and life and coinage went on about its business.

The example to the left was sold by Stack's Bowers Galleries in the March 2020 Showcase Auction, where it realized $36,000.