Coin design and illustration for sculpt, 2009. It was an honor to work on Abraham Lincoln’s portrait for the dollar coin, and it helped that more photographic reference of him was available than for any other 19th century president. Not used.
Coin design and illustration for sculpt, 2009. Buchanan’s “Liberty” was part of the First Spouse Series, to be released simultaneously with the Buchanan dollar, but Buchanan was one of the presidents who remained unmarried during his presidency. The
Coin design and illustration for sculpt, 2013. The Silver Commemorative for the 3-coin 5-Star Generals Series was to feature Dwight D. Eisenhower and George C. Marshall, and its reverse to represent the European theater of WWII. Eisenhower was a fai
This, my first reverse design, was considered “too busy,” though this is a large coin, the size of a half-dollar, and I still feel it would have accommodated all the elements included my original design. Included is a P-51 “Mustang” fighter, a B-17
My contract with the Mint expired at the end of 2009, but early in 2010 I was invited to apply again, and I submitted the design for an imaginary Jamestown coin. This shows the meeting of three cultures — the Native American, European, and African.
For 2013, the Sacagawea dollar was to represent the first treaty between a Native Amercan tribe — the Delawares — and the new United States government, at Fort Pitt in 1778. This was a concept not without its critics, and even the Citizens’ Coin Adv
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