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« on: September 27, 2013, 05:59:18 am »
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The Chief Engraver of the United States Mint, John Sinnock, was asked to do a rush-job design of a new dime to honor Franklin D. Roosevelt after the president died unexpectedly 1n 1945.

Sinnock said he based his coin on a Roosevelt medal he had designed four years earlier.

But others believe he used the design of an African-American sculptress named Selma Burke, who had been commissioned to design a Roosevelt plaque in 1944.

The design on the left is Sinnock's original, and the one on the right is Burke's.  What do you think?

And why in the world would a rumor start that the "JS" below Roosevelt's neck stood for someone much more sinister than John Sinnock? 

The answers are in episode #133 of In the Treasure Corner, at

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Thanks for another good one, Dan!   The image on the dime looks to me to be an exact mirror image of John Sinnock's image on the medal he designed of FDR.  I hade read, before, of the controversy over the JS initials under the bust.  Interesting!

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