I'm guessing no one here reads Mother Jones... (TR and St.-Gaudens)

Del Pinto · Jul 8, 2015

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/07/greek-drachma-euro-roosevelt

Roosevelt—so moved to redesign the country's currency that he feared the treasury secretary thought him "a crack-brained lunatic on the subject"—commissioned the master sculptor to make designs for a new penny, $10, and $20 coin. "This is my pet crime," said the president, referring to his passion for the subject.
Saint-Gaudens got to work. "You have hit the nail on the head with regard to the coinage," he wrote to the president. "Of course the great coins (and you might say the only coins) are the Greek ones you speak of."

What emerged from his arduous commission, which was plagued by political, bureaucratic, and technological problems, was the famous 1907 $20 gold coin, a.k.a the double eagle, widely regarded as an artistic triumph.
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medoraman · Jul 8, 2015

Too bad they only concentrated on the Athenian tet for the piece, widely known to be artistically inferior to many other Greek coins. They should have shown some Syracusan coins if they really wanted to see some beauty.

Del Pinto · Jul 8, 2015

I'd rather know which coins Roosevelt and St-Gaudens meant, actually.

geekpryde · Jul 8, 2015

I read Motherjones occasionally, when I am hanging out at the bookstore.

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