As I get ready to slow down to a very limited amount of coin carving after this year I recarved a 1879 morgan dollar for a collector...Boomer beard presented a challenge because there was no raised metal on coin in which to carve a beard and I wanted to leave the field looking like a minted coin..
I'm continually awed by your abilities. I don't have an artistic bone in my body. For instance, any "great" photo I take is like one kernal of wheat among the chaff. (I did manage to get one a couple years ago. One out of 500!)