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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Clinker, post: 399163, member: 6229&quot;]<font size="5">Adolph Alexander Weinman is best known for designing the Walking Liberty Half Dollar:</font></p><p><br /></p><p><font size="5">Here&#039;s an image of the obverse of a 1917 Half Dollar courtesy of Coin Page:</font></p><p><font size="5"><a href="http://www.coinpage.com/large.php?tImageId=3502" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.coinpage.com/large.php?tImageId=3502" rel="nofollow">http://www.coinpage.com/large.php?tImageId=3502</a></font></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><font size="5">This design was well received by the public and was so popular it was selected as the obverse on the Silver Eagle Bullion coins debuing in 1986:</font></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><font size="5"><a href="http://www.coinpage.com/coin-image-6394.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.coinpage.com/coin-image-6394.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.coinpage.com/coin-image-6394.html</a></font></p><p><br /></p><p><font size="5">And Here&#039;s the reverses of both coins</font></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><font size="5">First the Walking Liberty Half Dollar:</font></p><p><font size="5">Notice the designer&#039;s initials &quot;AAW&quot; below the tail feathers at about 4:30 o&#039;clock:</font></p><p><br /></p><p><font size="5"><a href="http://www.coinpage.com/large.php?tImageId=2910" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.coinpage.com/large.php?tImageId=2910" rel="nofollow">http://www.coinpage.com/large.php?tImageId=2910</a></font></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><font size="5">And here&#039;s the Silver Eagle:</font></p><p><br /></p><p><font size="5"><a href="http://www.coinpage.com/coin-image-6395.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.coinpage.com/coin-image-6395.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.coinpage.com/coin-image-6395.html</a></font></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><font size="5">Do I hear you telling me A. A. also designed the &quot;Mercury Dime?&quot; You&#039;re right, he did and here&#039;s the image courtesy of Coin Facts:</font></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><font size="5"><a href="http://www.coinfacts.com/dimes/mercury_dimes/1916d_mercury_head_dime.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.coinfacts.com/dimes/mercury_dimes/1916d_mercury_head_dime.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.coinfacts.com/dimes/mercury_dimes/1916d_mercury_head_dime.htm</a></font></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><font size="5">Do you know A. A. Weinman&#039;s son, Howard, designed a commemorative coin that was struck bearing the date 1936 AND that Congress specified (for the first time) that the half Dollar carry only the date &quot;1936&quot; as a safeguard against the denomination being extended over a period of years?</font></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><font size="5">Here&#039;s the obverse:</font></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><font size="5"><a href="http://www.coinpage.com/coin-image-2772.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.coinpage.com/coin-image-2772.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.coinpage.com/coin-image-2772.html</a></font></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><font size="5">Here&#039;s the reverse:</font></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><font size="5"><a href="http://www.coinpage.com/coin-image-858.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.coinpage.com/coin-image-858.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.coinpage.com/coin-image-858.html</a></font></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><font size="5">Hope you enjoyed this trivia,</font></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><font size="5">Clinker</font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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