Editorial
Coin designers
The engravers and sculptors behind US coinage — the Mint's chief engravers and the outside artists alike — and the series each one shaped.
- A. Wolfe Davidson — Columbia Half Dollar DesignerHe fled a Russian famine, traded a statue for an education, and designed one American coin — and never signed it.
- Abel Buell: The Engraver Behind America's First CoinsBranded for forgery at twenty-two. A decade later, trusted with the new nation's money.
- Adam Eckfeldt: First Coiner of the U.S. MintA Philadelphia toolmaker's son who helped strike the first U.S. coins — and quietly saved the ones that became a national treasure.
- Adam Pietz: The Engraver Who Designed the Iowa HalfHe cut a career's worth of medals into steel. Only one of his designs ever became money.
- Adolph A. Weinman: Designer of the Mercury DimeA boy who landed in New York at 14 grew up to design the two coins many collectors call the most beautiful America ever struck.
- Alex Shagin — Soviet Mint Artist to U.S. Coin DesignerThe Soviet mint's star sculptor who walked away for the right to choose his own subjects
- Alfred F. Maletsky — U.S. Mint Sculptor-EngraverThe U.S. Mint sculptor who put two real, grieving officers on a silver dollar
- Alfred Maletsky: U.S. Mint Sculptor-EngraverThe U.S. Mint sculptor-engraver who put Washington crossing the Delaware into a billion pockets.
- Anthony de Francisci — Peace Dollar DesignerThe immigrant sculptor who put his wife's face on the silver dollar — and called it Liberty.
- Arthur Graham Carey: Rhode Island Half Dollar DesignerThe Harvard-trained philosopher of craft who, with a Newport letter-carver, put Roger Williams in a canoe on a 1936 half dollar.
- Augustus Saint-Gaudens: The Sculptor of the SaintThe sculptor a president drafted to fix America's ugly money — who gave it the coin many still call its most beautiful, and died before he saw it spend.
- Barbara Fox — U.S. Mint Coin DesignerThe watercolor painter who quietly designed a decade of American coins.
- Bart Forbes — Designer of the 1996 Olympic Rowing DollarThe sports painter who worked three Olympic Games — and froze a four-man crew in silver.
- Bela Lyon Pratt — Designer of the Sunken Gold CoinsHe sank the design below the surface — and made the only coins the United States has ever struck that way.
- Benjamin Franklin: Designer of America's First CoinThe printer, scientist, and statesman who gave America's first coin its blunt advice: Mind Your Business.
- Benjamin Hawkins — Who Designed the Wisconsin Half DollarThe sculptor who rebuilt a coin from the ground up — and let someone else share the credit
- Benjamin Sowards — Coin Designer & US Mint AIP ArtistThe Utah painter who put a devilish grin on a gold coin — and rowed George Washington back across the Delaware.
- Beth Zaiken — Designer of the Bucking-Horse Liberty CoinThe paleoartist who turned Liberty into a wild, bucking horse.
- Bill J. Leftwich — WWII Half Dollar Reverse DesignerThe far-West-Texas cowboy artist who fought through the Battle of the Bulge — then drew the war onto a coin
- Bodo Broschat: German Commemorative Coin DesignerA modern German coin designer working where architecture, sport, and civic subjects have to fit inside a small round field.
- Brenda Putnam — Cleveland Half Dollar DesignerThe sculptor who turned the Great Lakes into a coin
- Calvin Massey: Artist of the 1996 High Jump DollarJazz pianist, golden-age comic-book artist, Franklin Mint sculptor — and the man who put a Black woman athlete on a U.S. silver dollar.
- Carl L. Schmitz: Who Designed the Delaware Half DollarThe immigrant sculptor who beat 37 rivals to put a Swedish ship on an American coin
- Cassie McFarland — Baseball Hall of Fame Coin DesignerThe painter whose family baseball glove became the U.S. Mint's first curved coin.
- Charles E. Barber — U.S. Mint Chief EngraverFor 37 years, almost every coin in an American pocket bore his hand.
- Charles E. Barber: U.S. Mint Chief EngraverChief engraver of the U.S. Mint for 37 years — the man whose name we still stamp on a quarter.
- Charles J. Madsen — WWII $5 Gold Coin DesignerThe contest winner who put a triumphant soldier on America's World War II gold coin.
- Charles Keck: Sculptor of 3 U.S. CoinsThe monument sculptor who put a canal laborer, a wildcat, and a senator who didn't want to be there on American coins.
- Charles L. Vickers — U.S. Mint Sculptor-EngraverThe Mint sculptor-engraver who put a young Lincoln, book in hand, on a log — and signed it CLV.
- Chester Beach: Who Designed 4 US Commemorative CoinsThe San Francisco jeweler who became one of America's great medallists — and sculpted four commemorative half dollars, two of them now nearly impossible to find.
- Chester Y. Martin — U.S. Mint Sculptor-EngraverThe Chattanooga medalist who spent six years inside the Mint
- Chris Costello: Papyrus Font Designer Turned U.S. Mint ArtistFrom the world's most mocked font to a Coin-of-the-Year eagle — a designer who waited thirty years to land his dream.
- Christian Gobrecht: Seated Liberty's EngraverThe clockmaker's apprentice who gave American silver its most enduring face — and signed it too proudly.
- Christina Hess — Suffrage Dollar Coin DesignerThe illustrator who packed the whole suffrage movement onto one silver dollar.
- Christopher Polentz — U.S. Mint Coin DesignerThe painter of carnival outcasts who hid the Fibonacci sequence inside a U.S. gold coin.
- Clint Hansen — Iowa Artist of Two Olympic Half DollarsThe Iowa illustrator who scratches pictures out of black ink — and won a U.S. Mint contest twice over
- Constance Ortmayer — Cincinnati Half Dollar DesignerThe sculptor who gave a half-invented anniversary a face.
- Craig Campbell — U.S. Mint SculptorHe sculpted creatures for The Hobbit and Mad Max — then turned Liberty into a galloping wild horse.
- Cyrus E. Dallin: Pilgrim Half Dollar SculptorThe Utah-born sculptor who spent forty years carving Native America — and once put a Pilgrim on a silver coin.
- David Parsons: Who Designed the Wisconsin Half DollarThe Wisconsin art student who designed his state's 1936 half dollar — then watched the U.S. Mint hand the finished job to a sculptor in New York.
- Dean McMullen — U.S. Coin Designer (World Cup, Bill of Rights)A semi-retired freelance graphic designer — not a Mint engraver — whose work appears across six American commemoratives.
- Dennis R. Williams: The 21-Year-Old Who Designed a DollarThe 21-year-old who won the back of a dollar
- Don Everhart: Last Sculptor-Engraver of the US MintHe sculpted leaping dolphins and a hermit crab for a living — then put the Statue of Liberty in your change.
- Don Troiani — Designer of the 1995 Civil War CoinsA historian with a basement full of real muskets, the rare honor of designing every front of a U.S. Mint set, and coins struck to save the ground he paints.
- Donna Weaver — U.S. Mint Coin DesignerThe sculptor who went from doll heads to the coins in your pocket
- Ed Dwight: Astronaut Candidate Turned Coin DesignerAmerica's first Black astronaut candidate, who decades later carved a forgotten chapter of the Revolution onto a U.S. silver dollar.
- Edgar Z. Steever — U.S. Mint Sculptor-EngraverFor four months in 1981 he ran the Mint's engraving shop — and for one coin in 1986 he made New York harbor fit in your hand.
- Edgar Z. Steever IV — U.S. Mint Sculptor-EngraverA Yale-trained sculptor who spent 38 years carving coins for the Philadelphia Mint
- Edmund J. Senn: Old Spanish Trail Half Dollar SculptorThe El Paso sculptor who shaped one of America's rarest coins — and was left off it.
- Edward Everett Burr: Arkansas Half Dollar DesignerThe car-ad artist who designed Arkansas's centennial coin — and outlasted the federal board that rejected it.
- Edward R. Grove — U.S. Mint Engraver & MedalistThe Mint engraver whose Martha Washington has been struck, again and again, in metals that never became money.
- Edward Southworth Fisher — the Morse-Code Coin DesignerThe designer who hid a wartime radio signal inside an American gold coin.
- Elana Hagler: Coin of the Year DesignerThe painter who turned a 5,000-year-old tree into the world's Coin of the Year.
- Elizabeth Jones: First Woman U.S. Mint Chief EngraverThe medalist from Rome who became the first woman to run the U.S. Mint's engraving department — and put gold back in American coins.
- Emily Bates: Sculptor of the Arkansas Centennial HalfThe Chicago sculptor who turned a twice-rejected design into a real coin
- Emily Damstra — Modern Silver Eagle DesignerThe wildlife illustrator who redrew the Silver Eagle — and gave three U.S. commemoratives their quiet emotional punch.
- Emily S. Damstra — U.S. Mint Coin DesignerThe science illustrator who redrew the back of the Silver Eagle.
- Eric David Custer — U.S. Mint SculptorThe Mint sculptor who fits a whole revolution into two hairs of metal.
- Erich Ott: German Euro and Commemorative Coin DesignerA recurring designer in modern German commemoratives, from Deutsche Mark memory to euro-era state coinage.
- Felix Schlag: Who Designed the Jefferson NickelThe German immigrant who won the nickel — and waited 28 years for his name on it.
- Francis E. Spinner: He Pasted Stamps Into MoneyA saddler's apprentice who couldn't make change for the Union — so he invented a way to.
- Frank Gasparro: The Engraver in Your PocketBorn the year Lincoln's face first went on a penny, he grew up to run the U.S. Mint's engraving room — and his proudest coin is the one America refused to use.
- Frank Morris — Memphis Painter Behind U.S. Mint CoinsThe Memphis portrait painter who learned to think in metal
- Frank Vittor: Who Designed the Gettysburg Half DollarPittsburgh's monument-maker — and the sculptor who put a Union and a Confederate soldier on the same coin.
- Frantisek Chochola: German Euro Coin DesignerA designer of German 2-euro Bundesländer coins, where civic architecture has to survive at pocket-change scale.
- Gary Cooper — Who Designed the Apollo 11 CoinThe Maine sculptor the Mint kept turning down — until one open contest let him put a bootprint on the Moon.
- George Klauba — WWII 50th Anniversary Half Dollar DesignerA self-taught Chicago painter and former Navy gunner's mate carried his sea years onto a half dollar honoring a war.
- George T. Morgan — Designer of the Morgan DollarRecruited from London over the Mint's own engravers — then made to wait four decades for the top job.
- Gerda Johanna Werner — Model for Germany's 50 PfennigHer kneeling figure made Germany's recovery visible on one of its most familiar coins.
- Gertrude K. Lathrop: Sculptor of Coins From LifeThe sculptor who had New York lend her a live beaver to get one coin right — and borrowed a Guernsey calf for the next.
- Gilbert Stuart: Painter Behind the Draped Bust?He painted the Washington on your dollar bill. The Liberty on America's first silver coins may be his too — and that 'may' is the whole story.
- Gilroy Roberts: Who Designed the Kennedy Half DollarThe Mint engraver who carved a grieving nation's president into silver — in six weeks.
- Glenna Goodacre: Who Designed the Sacagawea DollarShe designed the most-circulated portrait of a Native American woman in U.S. history — and when the Mint paid her, she asked for the prize in coins.
- Gutzon Borglum — Mount Rushmore's One Coin DesignThe sculptor who carved a mountain — and designed the coin that paid for one he never got to finish.
- Hans Schuler — Maryland Half Dollar DesignerBaltimore's monument maker — and the sculptor who put Lord Baltimore on a coin
- Harry Cochrane: Who Designed the Maine Centennial Half DollarThe Maine muralist who designed a U.S. coin
- Heidi Wastweet — Self-Taught Sculptor of U.S. CoinsThe self-taught sculptor who learned to tell a whole story in a coin's worth of metal.
- Heinz Hoyer & Sneschana Russewa-Hoyer — Germany's Euro EagleTheir federal eagle carries Germany's strongest state symbol onto the shared European currency.
- Henry Augustus Lukeman — Daniel Boone Half Dollar DesignerHe recarved a Georgia mountain into the largest relief on Earth — and made exactly one coin, which became a scandal.
- Henry Kreis: Sculptor of Connecticut's Half DollarsThe tombstone carver from Essen who put Connecticut's Charter Oak on a silver half dollar — and an eagle America couldn't stop arguing about.
- Henry Voigt: First Chief Coiner of the U.S. MintBefore the U.S. Mint had a roof, he was already making money in a borrowed cellar.
- Hermon Atkins MacNeil: Standing Liberty Quarter SculptorThe sculptor whose Liberty defended peace — and who fought the U.S. Mint when it changed his coin behind his back.
- Howard Kenneth Weinman: Long Island Half Dollar DesignerThe sculptor who designed exactly one U.S. coin — and made it count
- Isaac Scott Hathaway: First Black U.S. Coin DesignerThe sculptor who became the first African American to design a United States coin.
- Jack L. Ahr: Who Designed the Bicentennial QuarterThe trophy designer who put a drummer on a billion quarters
- Jacques Schnier: Bay Bridge Half Dollar DesignerThe engineer who became a sculptor — and put a grizzly bear on a 1936 half dollar.
- James B. Longacre — Indian Head Cent DesignerThe runaway apprentice who became Chief Engraver — and nearly lost the job to a forged accusation.
- James B. Longacre: The Engraver They Tried to FireA self-taught portraitist who stamped his designs on American gold, silver, and nickel — over the loud objections of the men he worked beside.
- James C. Sharpe — Atlanta Olympics Dollar DesignerThe fighter pilot turned magazine-cover painter who drew the Atlanta Games onto silver.
- James Earle Fraser — Designer of the Buffalo NickelThe frontier-raised sculptor who put a Native American on one side of the nickel and a bison on the other.
- James M. Peed — U.S. Mint Designer of the Coin's ReverseThe U.S. Mint artist who drew the side of the coin you flip past
- James Peed — Designer Behind the 1984 Olympic Gold EagleHe carried a rifle for the Army, then drew the runners on the first U.S. gold coin in fifty years
- Jamie Franki — Who Designed the 2006 Forward-Facing NickelThe illustration professor who made Thomas Jefferson look you in the eye — and put the buffalo back in your pocket first.
- Jamie Wyeth: The Painter Behind a Silver DollarThe third-generation realist painter who put a living woman on a U.S. coin — and fought the Mint to keep her wrinkles.
- Jennie Norris: American Gold Eagle Reverse DesignerA graphite artist and former raptor handler drew the first new reverse the American Gold Eagle had seen in 35 years — and it was the first coin she ever designed.
- Jim Licaretz — U.S. Mint Sculptor of the 2009 CentThe sculptor who pressed Lincoln's log cabin into the 2009 penny — and spent the years between his two Mint careers making toys.
- Jim Sharpe — Designer of the 1992 Olympic $5 Gold CoinThe Navy fighter pilot who became a magazine-cover artist — and put a sprinter on America's 1992 Olympic gold coin
- Jo Mora — Designer of the 1925 California Half DollarA Uruguay-born sculptor, vaquero, and mapmaker — and the man behind one of the most loved US commemorative coins.
- Joel Iskowitz: Most-Minted U.S. Coin DesignerMore designs adopted by the U.S. Mint than any artist in its history — and almost nobody knows his name.
- John Baer Stoudt: Who Designed the Huguenot Half DollarThe Pennsylvania pastor whose pencil sketches became a 1924 U.S. coin
- John Eckstein: The Sculptor of Draped Bust LibertyThe court sculptor who modeled America's Draped Bust Liberty — for thirty dollars.
- John Flanagan: Who Designed the Washington QuarterThe judges twice picked someone else. The Treasury picked him anyway.
- John Frederick Lewis: Sesquicentennial Half DollarThe Philadelphia lawyer who sketched a U.S. coin — and waited forty years for his name on it.
- John Howard Benson: The Carver Who Designed a CoinThe Newport letter-carver who put Roger Williams on a coin.
- John McGraw — U.S. Mint Medallic ArtistThe U.S. Mint medallic artist whose young eagle won the world's Coin of the Year.
- John Mercanti — Silver Eagle Reverse DesignerThe 12th Chief Engraver of the U.S. Mint — and the hand behind the eagle on more silver than almost any coin in history.
- John R. Deecken — 1992 Olympic 'Nolan Ryan' Dollar ArtistThe self-taught Connecticut artist who won a national contest — and put a pitch that looked a lot like Nolan Ryan on a U.S. silver dollar.
- John R. Sinnock — Designer of the Roosevelt DimeHis two letters on a coin once made Americans whisper about Soviet spies — and they weren't the only fight his work started.
- John R. Sinnock — Roosevelt Dime & Franklin Half DesignerThe Mint engraver whose two initials touched off a Cold War rumor — and who designed the dime still in your pocket.
- John Reich: The Engraver Who Redrew U.S. CoinsHired at half a chief engraver's salary, he gave the young United States its Capped Bust and Classic Head coins — then quit, ten years later, when the raise never came.
- John Smith Gardner: The U.S. Mint's Vanished EngraverHe cut steel for America's first copper coins — then walked into the dark.
- Joseph A. Bailly: Sculptor of a Coin the Mint RefusedThe Philadelphia sculptor who designed a U.S. coin the Mint refused to strike — twice
- Joseph D. Pena — Bill of Rights $5 Gold Coin DesignerThe artist who won a national contest — and put a Madison quote in gold
- Joseph F. Menna: U.S. Mint Chief EngraverClassically trained in clay, famous for sculpting Batman and Darth Maul in software — and now the artistic head of the U.S. Mint, putting Superman on legal American coins.
- Joseph Menna — 13th U.S. Mint Chief EngraverThe sculptor who taught the U.S. Mint to work in pixels — then was named its 13th Chief Engraver.
- Joseph Wright: The US Mint's First EngraverHe cast Washington's living face in plaster, then shaped America's first beloved Liberty in copper — and yellow fever took him at 37, before one of his cents was struck.
- Juliette May Fraser: Hawaii Half Dollar DesignerThe Honolulu muralist who drew Hawaii's only commemorative coin
- Justin Kunz — US Mint Coin DesignerA video-game artist who spent five years losing Mint competitions — then reimagined Liberty for a new century.
- Karl Roth: Early Federal Republic Coin DesignerA designer from the early Federal Republic's silver commemorative years.
- L. W. Hoffecker: The Dealer Who Designed His Own CoinThe El Paso coin dealer who drew one of America's rarest commemoratives, lobbied it past a veto, and mailed every coin himself.
- Laura Gardin Fraser: She Won the Quarter TwiceThe first woman to design an American coin. Twice chosen to portray Washington. Overruled by one official. Vindicated by history.
- Laurie J. Musser — U.S. Mint AIP Coin DesignerThe wildlife painter who drew Christa McAuliffe's hopeful gaze onto a silver dollar
- Laurie Musser — U.S. Mint Coin DesignerThe greeting-card illustrator the U.S. Mint hired to design its coins.
- LeRoy Transfield — WWI Centennial Silver Dollar DesignerThe sculptor who put his family's war on an American silver dollar
- Linda Fox — Lady Bird Johnson Gold Coin DesignerAn Arizona portrait painter the U.S. Mint brought in from the outside — and the half-ounce gold coin that carries her initials.
- Lyndall Bass: Who Designed the Lincoln Shield CentA Santa Fe oil painter, a U.S. Mint competition, and a shield that has ridden the back of tens of billions of cents.
- Malcolm Farley — 1996 Olympic Half Dollar DesignerThe name on the back of two 1996 Atlanta Olympic half dollars — and very little else.
- Marcel Jovine: From POW Camp to the US MintA captured soldier who built America's see-through toys — then won six US Mint design competitions.
- Marika Somogyi — Designer of Two U.S. Silver DollarsThe Budapest-born sculptor who turned a survivor's eye into two American silver dollars.
- Marjorie Emory Simpson: Norfolk Half Dollar DesignerThe sculptor of horses who helped design America's wordiest coin
- Matt Swaim — U.S. Mint Coin DesignerThe architectural illustrator who drew a pitcher in mid-throw onto a U.S. silver dollar.
- Matthew Peloso — U.S. Mint Sculptor-EngraverThe Philadelphia Mint engraver who hid his initials in the shrubbery — and ended his career carving Liberty's torch.
- Michael Gaudioso — U.S. Mint Sculptor-EngraverEleven years at the U.S. Mint translating flat designs into struck metal — including the first new Silver Eagle eagle in 35 years.
- Miley Busiek (Tucker-Frost): Gold Eagle Reverse DesignerHow a self-taught Texan turned one campaign speech into 35 years of American gold coins.
- Miley Busiek: Who Designed the Gold Eagle ReverseThe self-taught sculptor who lobbied her way onto America's gold coin
- Norman E. Nemeth — US Mint Sculptor-EngraverThe Air Force mechanic who became a US Mint engraver — and put a woman's harvest on the dollar.
- Olin Levi Warner: The Sculptor Behind America's First CoinHe drew America's first commemorative coin. Then two other men signed it.
- Patricia Lewis Verani — U.S. Commemorative Coin DesignerA stone-and-wood carver from New Hampshire whose designs the U.S. Mint kept coming back for — four commemorative coins across a decade.
- Patricia Lucas-Morris — U.S. Mint Coin DesignerThe graphite illustrator who draws coins — and never cut a die
- Paul C. Balan: First Filipino U.S. Coin DesignerFrom a woodcarving town on a Philippine lake to the first Filipino — and first Asian — artist to design a United States coin.
- Paul Wayland Bartlett: Sculptor of the Lafayette DollarThe sculptor whose statue rode onto America's first commemorative silver dollar.
- Phebe Hemphill: The U.S. Mint Sculptor Behind LibertyA fine-art sculptor with a living link to the Saint-Gaudens tradition — and one of the most prolific artists at the U.S. Mint.
- Philip Fowler — U.S. Mint Sculptor-EngraverThe Mint engraver whose Mount Vernon still hides inside America's secret test coins.
- Pompeo Coppini — Who Designed the Texas Half DollarThe Italian immigrant who carved Texas into bronze, stone — and silver.
- Reinhart Heinsdorff — Designer of Germany's Brandenburg Gate Euro CoinsHis German euro design makes reunification architectural rather than rhetorical.
- Renata Gordon — U.S. Mint SculptorThe Philadelphia sculptor who turns a painter's eye into the coins you carry
- Richard Martin Werner — Designer of Germany's 50 PfennigHis best-known coin does not celebrate victory. It shows a woman planting an oak tree.
- Richard Masters — U.S. Mint Coin DesignerHe pitched the U.S. Mint more than 160 coin designs. Thirty-seven made it to metal.
- Richard T. LaRoche — 1994 World Cup Half DollarThe artist who froze a soccer player mid-kick on a U.S. coin
- Robert Aitken: Sculptor of the Pan-Pac $50 GoldThe sculptor of the U.S. Supreme Court's west pediment — and the man who designed the rarest American commemorative coin ever made.
- Robert Ball Hughes: Who Reworked Seated LibertyA London prodigy, the first big bronze cast on American soil, and a single 1840 retouch that still splits a coin series — and that one famous scholar called 'a sorry mess.'
- Robert Birch: Engraver of the 1792 Birch CentHe left his mark on the dawn of American money — and almost nothing else.
- Robert Graham, Sculptor of the 1984 Olympic DollarThe sculptor who put two headless athletes on a U.S. silver dollar — and meant every inch of it.
- Robert Lamb: the Coin Made of WordsThe letter-carver who designed a U.S. gold coin with no picture on it — only words.
- Robert Scot: First Chief Engraver of the US MintA Scottish engraver became the first Chief Engraver of the United States Mint — and cut the dies the whole young Republic carried in its pocket.
- Rolf Lederbogen — Designer of Germany's Oak-Twig Euro CentsGermany's smallest euro coins kept the oak, but changed its scale and purpose.
- Ron Sanders — U.S. Coin Designer (AIP)An honors-trained illustrator who became one of the Mint's outside hands
- Ronald D. Sanders — U.S. Mint AIP Coin DesignerHe draws America's coins from a studio in Tennessee — and has never once carved one.
- Ronald D. Sanders — U.S. Mint Coin DesignerAn award-winning painter whose pencil shaped a decade of American money
- Scott R. Blazek — Bill of Rights $5 Gold DesignerThe pastor and children's-book illustrator behind the 1993 Bill of Rights $5 gold coin
- Seth G. Huntington — Bicentennial Half Dollar DesignerThe Minnesota adman who won a national contest — and put Independence Hall in half a billion pockets.
- Sherl J. Winter — U.S. Mint Sculptor-EngraverThe Mint sculptor who turned other artists' drawings into the coins in your hand
- Sherl Joseph Winter — U.S. Mint Sculptor-EngraverThe Mint sculptor whose eagles flew on America's gold coin for 35 years
- Steven M. Bieda: The Collector Who Designed a U.S. CoinThe hobbyist collector who beat the professionals to design a U.S. coin — then got himself elected to write the laws.
- Susan Gamble — U.S. Mint Coin Designer (1957–2015)The outsider artist who never carved a coin — and won one of the highest honors in world numismatics.
- T. James Ferrell — U.S. Mint Engraver (1939–2020)The fine-art painter who became a U.S. Mint engraver — and carved a decade of American coins
- Thomas Cleveland — U.S. Mint Coin DesignerAn Oklahoma ad man with no coin experience — who ended up drawing an eagle on platinum and a peace belt into your pocket change.
- Thomas D. Rogers Sr.: U.S. Mint Sculptor & EngraverThe U.S. Mint sculptor who carved coins by hand — backwards, into the mold itself.
- Thomas Hipschen: The Hand Behind the $100 BillHe cut Franklin, Grant, Jackson and Lincoln into steel by hand — then crossed over to coins.
- Thomas Sully: The Painter Behind Seated LibertyThe portrait painter whose seated Liberty became the face of American silver — for half a century, under another man's name.
- Titian Peale: The Naturalist Behind the Flying EagleHe spent his life drawing birds and butterflies from the wild. One of those birds ended up on the silver dollar.
- Tom Nielsen — Designer of the 1994 POW Silver DollarA Navy veteran who painted the sea for fifty years — and designed exactly one U.S. coin.
- Trygve A. Rovelstad — Elgin Half Dollar DesignerThe Elgin sculptor who minted a coin to build a statue — and designed the badge millions of soldiers would wear.
- Victor David Brenner: Who Designed the Lincoln CentThe immigrant medalist who put Lincoln on the penny — and lost his name on it three days later.
- Walter H. Rich: The Maine Naturalist Who Made One CoinA self-taught Maine naturalist who painted birds and fish — and designed exactly one coin.
- William Barber: U.S. Mint Chief Engraver (1869–1879)The Mint's fifth Chief Engraver — author of the Trade Dollar, and of a cabinet of magnificent coins the country decided not to make.
- William C. Burgard III — U.S. Coin DesignerThe drawing teacher who put a waving flag on a U.S. silver dollar
- William C. Cousins — U.S. Mint Sculptor-EngraverThe Franklin Mint's master sculptor who spent his last decade quietly shaping America's coins
- William Cousins: The Engraver Behind Modern US QuartersThe US Mint sculptor whose quiet act of restraint sits on billions of quarters.
- William J. Krawczewicz — U.S. Coin & Banknote DesignerColleagues call him 'Dollar Bill' — because designing the dollar bills was literally his job.
- William Kneass: 2nd Chief Engraver of the US MintThe print-shop engraver who beat Christian Gobrecht for the Mint's top job in 1824 — and whose career ended at his own workbench.
- William Krawczewicz: The Man They Call Dollar BillHis friends call him 'Dollar Bill' — and he earned it twice: on the coins in your pocket and the bills in your wallet.
- William Marks Simpson: Antietam & Roanoke Coin SculptorThe Rome-trained Baltimore sculptor who designed three of America's 1937 commemorative half dollars — and gave one of them its quiet, lasting power.
- William Wheeler Hubbell: Inventor of Goloid CoinageThe inventor who lettered a U.S. coin in grams
- William Woodward — Designer of the 1989 Congress DollarThe painter who designed both sides of a United States coin