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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;John Anthony, post: 8230289, member: 42773&quot;]Roberts is of course most famous for the obverse of the Kennedy Half Dollar. He was also instrumental in the design of the Franklin Half, but we have plenty of threads about those coins. I&#039;d like to post some of his coinage and medals <i>other</i> than those, both from the US and Franklin Mints.</p><p><br /></p><p>The Community College of Pennsylvania occupies the building that was once the third Philadelphia mint (1901-1969). Roberts worked there for two decades, and the college set up an exhibit in his honor. <a href="https://www.ccp.edu/campus-life/art-around-college/gilroy-roberts-gallery" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.ccp.edu/campus-life/art-around-college/gilroy-roberts-gallery" rel="nofollow">The webpage is here</a>, although the videos are disabled for some reason. But click on &quot;Listen to the Audio Tour&quot; which has lots of clips of Roberts speaking about his art and career. It&#039;s quite interesting. (I&#039;ll have to get down to that exhibit as I live in Pennsylvania.)</p><p><br /></p><p>Also, Ray Herz gave a brief overview of Gilroy Roberts at FUN in 2012. The video is on Youtube here. Definitely worth a watch...</p><p><br /></p><p>[MEDIA=youtube]D279kliMb3s[/MEDIA]</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ll start by posting this medal of William Howard Brett, director of the US Mint from July 1954 to January 1961. The obverse is by Roberts, who throughout his career was a master of portraiture. This is #317 in <i>Medals of the United States Mint</i> (Failor and Haydn), and the catalog describes the reverse as such: &quot;The kneeling female figure represents the Mint. Allegorical figures surround the central figure, depicting mining, assaying, melting and refining, and coining. The seal of the Treasury Department appears below.&quot; The reverse was designed by Engelhardus von Hebel, who is another interesting artist, but that&#039;s a story for another time.</p><p><br /></p><p>I don&#039;t know how many of these medals were struck, but it&#039;s the only one I&#039;ve come across - I found it on eBay recently. I&#039;ve never seen another. It has homogenous specking all over it, which makes me think there was something about the alloy that caused it to tone that way...</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1446776[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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