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Message:: [QUOTE="Clinker, post: 405494, member: 6229"]Like to learn more about another United States coinage designer and the coins he designed? Then read the rest of this trivia! Meet John R. Sinnock, Chief Engraver of the United Staes Mint (1925 - 1947). The first circulating coin J. R. designed was the Roosevelt dime: Here's the reverse (courtesy Coin Page): <a href="http://www.coinpage.com/coin-image-4357.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.coinpage.com/coin-image-4357.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.coinpage.com/coin-image-4357.html</a> Know what the heck all that stuff is on the reverse? Olive Branch, Torch and Oak Branch engraved over "E PLURIBUS UNIM." Here's the obverse:  <a href="http://www.coinpage.com/coin-image-4356.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.coinpage.com/coin-image-4356.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.coinpage.com/coin-image-4356.html</a> Note: His JS initials at the truncation of the neck just before the date? There were anti-war protesters claiming those (JS) initials represented Joseph Stalin and somehow Communists had taken over the U. S. Mint. Now I know you know Sinnock also designed the Franklin Half Dollar, but do you know what Sinnock did to repudiate those proclaiming the influence of Communism at the Mint? Look at the obverse of the Franklin Half and locate Sinnock's initials on the shoulder bevel: <a href="http://www.coinpage.com/coin-image-70.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.coinpage.com/coin-image-70.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.coinpage.com/coin-image-70.html</a> It's JRS. He added his middle name initial.  Stalin's middle initial is "w." Now here's the reverse of the half. Take a good look at the Liberty Bell.  <a href="http://www.coinpage.com/coin-image-71.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.coinpage.com/coin-image-71.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.coinpage.com/coin-image-71.html</a> Now compare the bell with the bell on the reverse of this next coin: <a href="http://www.coinpage.com/coin-image-2553.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.coinpage.com/coin-image-2553.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.coinpage.com/coin-image-2553.html</a> Yes, Sinnock designed the reverse of the 1926 Sesquicentennial of American Independence Half Dollar and here's a photo of the obverse: <a href="http://www.coinpage.com/coin-image-2552.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.coinpage.com/coin-image-2552.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.coinpage.com/coin-image-2552.html</a> Do you know the first American coin Sinnock helped design? Hint: Sinnock designed the reverse and G. T. Morgan (Morgan Dollars) designed the obverse which bears a portrait of Lincoln. Did you come up with the 1918 Illinois Centennial Commemorative Half Dollar? <a href="http://www.coinfacts.com/commemoratives/half_dollar_commems/lincoln_illinois.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.coinfacts.com/commemoratives/half_dollar_commems/lincoln_illinois.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.coinfacts.com/commemoratives/half_dollar_commems/lincoln_illinois.htm</a> Guess what? Sinnock, also, designed the 1926 Sesquicentennial 2 1/2 Dollar gold piece: <a href="http://www.coinfacts.com/commemoratives/two_and_one_half_dollar_gold_commemoratives/1926_sesquicentennial_commemorat.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.coinfacts.com/commemoratives/two_and_one_half_dollar_gold_commemoratives/1926_sesquicentennial_commemorat.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.coinfacts.com/commemoratives/two_and_one_half_dollar_gold_commemoratives/1926_sesquicentennial_commemorat.htm</a> Hope you enjoyed this trivia, Clinker  [/QUOTE]

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