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.
- Abel Buell: Engraver of America's First CoinsBranded for forgery at twenty-one. A decade later, trusted with the new nation's money.
- Abraham Wolfe Davidson — Columbia Half Dollar DesignerThe immigrant sculptor who designed one American coin — and never signed it.
- Adam Eckfeldt: First Coiner of the U.S. MintA Philadelphia blacksmith's son who helped strike the very first U.S. coins — and quietly saved the ones that became a national treasure.
- Adam Pietz: Mint Engraver Who Designed the Iowa HalfThe Mint engraver who cut a thousand medals and exactly one coin.
- 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 — Medallic Artist & Coin DesignerThe Soviet-trained master who traded a mint career for artistic freedom
- 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 turned other people's ideas into coins you can hold.
- Anthony de Francisci — Designer of the Peace DollarThe immigrant sculptor who put his wife's face on the silver dollar — and called it Liberty.
- Arthur Graham Carey: Rhode Island Half Dollar DesignerThe Catholic-art thinker who, with a Newport letter-carver, designed Rhode Island's 1936 half dollar.
- Augustus Saint-Gaudens: The Sculptor Behind the SaintThe sculptor a president drafted to fix America's ugly money — and who gave it the coin many still call its most beautiful.
- 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 turned three Olympic Games — and one silver dollar — into art.
- Bela Lyon Pratt — Sculptor of the Sunken-Relief Gold CoinsHe sank the design below the surface — and made the only incuse coins the United States has ever struck.
- 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 — Sculptor of the Wisconsin Half DollarThe sculptor who quietly rebuilt a coin from the ground up
- Benjamin Sowards — Coin Designer & AIP ArtistThe Utah illustrator who put a devilish grin on a gold coin — and George Washington back on the Delaware.
- Beth Zaiken — Coin Designer Behind the Bucking LibertyThe museum muralist who turned Liberty into a wild, bucking horse.
- Bill J. Leftwich — WWII Half Dollar Reverse DesignerThe Texas cowboy artist who fought through the Battle of the Bulge — then drew the war for a coin
- Brenda Putnam: Sculptor of the Cleveland Half DollarThe sculptor who mapped the Great Lakes onto a half dollar
- Calvin Massey: Artist of the 1996 High Jump DollarJazz pianist, comic-book artist, Franklin Mint sculptor — and the man who put a Black woman athlete on a U.S. silver dollar.
- Carl L. Schmitz: Sculptor of the Delaware Half DollarThe immigrant sculptor who out-designed 37 rivals to put a Swedish ship on an American coin
- Cassie McFarland — Baseball Hall of Fame Coin DesignerThe graphic artist whose 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 mark.
- Charles E. Barber: U.S. Mint Chief EngraverThe Mint's chief engraver for 37 years — the man whose name we still stamp on a quarter.
- Charles J. Madsen — WWII $5 Gold Coin DesignerThe artist behind the victorious soldier on America's World War II gold coin.
- Charles Keck: Sculptor of Three U.S. CoinsThe monument sculptor who put a canal laborer, a panther, and a reluctant senator 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.
- Chester Beach: Sculptor of 4 US Commemorative CoinsThe San Francisco jeweler who became one of America's great medallists — and sculpted four commemorative half dollars.
- Chester Y. Martin — U.S. Mint Sculptor-EngraverThe Chattanooga medalist who spent six years inside the Mint
- Chris Costello: Papyrus Font to U.S. Gold CoinsFrom the world's most mocked font to an award-winning U.S. coin — a designer who took thirty years to land his dream.
- Christian Gobrecht: the Seated Liberty EngraverThe clockmaker's apprentice who gave American silver its most enduring face — and signed it too proudly.
- Christina Hess — U.S. Mint Coin Designer & IllustratorThe illustrator who put three faces of the suffrage movement onto a silver dollar.
- Christopher Polentz: U.S. Mint Coin DesignerThe surrealist painter who hid the Fibonacci sequence inside a U.S. gold coin.
- Clint Hansen: The Iowa Artist Behind Two Olympic CoinsThe Iowa illustrator who won a U.S. Mint contest — and put his art on two Atlanta Olympic coins
- Constance Ortmayer — Cincinnati Half Dollar SculptorThe sculptor who gave a fake anniversary a face.
- Craig Campbell — U.S. Mint SculptorThe sculptor who worked on Mad Max and The Hobbit — then turned Liberty into a galloping horse.
- Cyrus E. Dallin: Sculptor of the Pilgrim Half DollarThe Utah-born sculptor who spent a career carving Native America — and once put a Pilgrim on a silver coin.
- David Parsons: Art Student Behind the Wisconsin Half DollarThe Wisconsin art student who designed his state's 1936 half dollar — then watched the Mint hand the finished work to someone else.
- Dean McMullen — Coin Designer (Bill of Rights, World Cup)A freelance graphic designer, not a Mint staffer — yet his work appears across six American commemoratives.
- Dennis R. Williams: The Student Who Designed a DollarThe 21-year-old who won the back of a dollar
- Don Everhart: The U.S. Mint SculptorThe freelancer who became the Mint's lead sculptor — and put the Statue of Liberty in your change.
- Don Troiani — Designer of the 1995 Civil War CoinsAn academic realist, a vast collection of real uniforms, and the rare honor of designing every obverse in a U.S. Mint set.
- Donna Weaver — U.S. Mint Coin SculptorThe sculptor who went from action figures to the coins in your pocket
- Ed Dwight: Astronaut, Sculptor, Coin DesignerThe first Black American trained for spaceflight, who later carved a forgotten chapter of the Revolution onto a silver dollar.
- Edgar Z. Steever — U.S. Mint Sculptor-EngraverThe Mint sculptor who wanted his art to ride around in people's pockets.
- 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 Centennial Half Dollar ArtistThe ad-man and sculptor who designed Arkansas's centennial coin — and fought Washington to keep it.
- Edward R. Grove — U.S. Mint EngraverThe Mint engraver whose Martha Washington has been struck in metals that never became money.
- Edward Southworth Fisher — Designer of the Morse-Code CoinThe designer who hid Morse code on an American gold coin.
- Elana Hagler: Painter Behind the Coin of the YearThe 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 reopened American gold.
- Emily Bates: Sculptor of the Arkansas Centennial HalfThe Chicago sculptor who turned a rejected design into a real coin
- Emily Damstra — U.S. Mint Coin DesignerThe science illustrator who drew the modern Silver Eagle — and three of the U.S. Mint's most moving commemoratives.
- Emily S. Damstra — U.S. Mint Coin DesignerThe science illustrator who redrew the back of the Silver Eagle.
- Eric David Custer — U.S. Mint Medallic ArtistThe Mint sculptor who fits whole stories into a sliver of metal.
- Felix Schlag — Designer of the Jefferson NickelThe German immigrant who won the nickel — and waited 28 years for his name.
- Francis E. Spinner: The Man Who Glued Stamps Into MoneyA banker's son who couldn't make change for the Union — so he invented a way to.
- Frank Gasparro: Coin Designer Behind the PennyThe U.S. Mint's 10th Chief Engraver designed more circulating coins than almost anyone alive — and his favorite is the one America refused to use.
- Frank Morris: Memphis Portraitist Turned U.S. Mint DesignerThe Memphis portrait painter who learned to think in metal
- Frank Vittor: Sculptor of the Gettysburg Half DollarThe Rodin-trained sculptor who put a Union and a Confederate veteran on the same coin.
- Gary Cooper — Apollo 11 Coin DesignerThe Maine sculptor who needed twenty years — and one bootprint — to get his work onto a U.S. coin.
- George Klauba — WWII Half Dollar Coin DesignerA self-taught Chicago artist carried his Navy years onto a half dollar that honored a war he'd grown up in the shadow of.
- George T. Morgan: The Englishman Who Drew LibertyRecruited from London over the Mint's own engravers — and made to wait four decades for the top job.
- Gertrude K. Lathrop: The Animal Sculptor Who Made CoinsThe sculptor who borrowed a live beaver to get one coin right — and a Guernsey calf for the next.
- Gilbert Stuart: The Painter Behind the Draped BustHe put George Washington on the dollar bill and a Philadelphia beauty on America's first silver coins.
- Gilroy Roberts: Who Designed the Kennedy Half DollarThe Mint engraver who carved a grieving nation's president into silver — in six weeks.
- Glenna Goodacre: Sculptor of the Sacagawea DollarPainter, self-taught sculptor, and the artist behind the most-circulated portrait of a Native American woman in U.S. history.
- Gutzon Borglum — Sculptor of the Stone Mountain Half DollarThe man who carved a mountain — and designed the coin that paid for one he never finished.
- Hans Schuler — Sculptor of the Maryland Half DollarBaltimore's monument maker — and the sculptor who put Lord Baltimore on a coin
- Harry Cochrane — Maine Centennial Half Dollar DesignerThe self-taught 'Maine Leonardo' who drew a U.S. coin
- Heidi Wastweet — Sculptor of U.S. Commemorative CoinsThe self-taught sculptor who taught herself to tell a whole story on a coin's worth of metal.
- Henry Augustus Lukeman: Daniel Boone Half Dollar DesignerThe sculptor who took over Stone Mountain — and put Daniel Boone on a coin that became a scandal.
- Henry Kreis: Sculptor of the Connecticut Half DollarsThe German-trained sculptor who carved Connecticut's Charter Oak and an eagle America argued about.
- Henry Voigt: First Chief Coiner of the U.S. MintBefore the U.S. Mint had a building, he was already making money in a cellar.
- Hermon Atkins MacNeil: Standing Liberty Quarter DesignerThe sculptor whose Liberty defended peace — and who fought the 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: The Ad Man Who Designed the 1976 QuarterThe outsider 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: The Mint Engraver Who Wouldn't QuitA self-taught portraitist who put his stamp on American gold, silver, and nickel — over the loud objections of the men he worked for.
- James Barton Longacre: U.S. Mint Chief EngraverThe runaway apprentice who became Chief Engraver — and nearly got fired for it.
- James C. Sharpe — Atlanta Olympics Coin DesignerThe magazine-cover illustrator who drew the Atlanta Olympics onto silver.
- James Earle Fraser — Designer of the Buffalo NickelThe frontier-raised sculptor who put an Indian on one side of the nickel and a buffalo on the other.
- James M. Peed — U.S. Mint Designer & SculptorThe U.S. Mint graphic artist whose work you've held without ever knowing his name
- James Peed — U.S. Mint Designer of the FDR Half EagleThe Mint's quiet hand behind the FDR half eagle and the first U.S. gold coin in fifty years
- Jamie Franki — Designer of the Forward-Facing Jefferson NickelThe illustration professor who made Thomas Jefferson look you in the eye — and put the buffalo back in your pocket.
- Jamie Wyeth: The Painter Behind a Historic Silver DollarThe third-generation realist painter who put a living woman on a U.S. coin — for the first time.
- Jennie Norris — American Gold Eagle DesignerA graphite artist, a former raptor handler, and the first redesign the American Gold Eagle had ever seen.
- Jim Licaretz — U.S. Mint Sculptor-EngraverThe U.S. Mint sculptor who carved Lincoln's log cabin — and spent the years between his two Mint careers shaping toys.
- Jim Sharpe — Olympic $5 Gold Coin DesignerThe magazine-cover illustrator who put a sprinter on America's 1992 Olympic gold coin
- Jo Mora — Designer of the 1925 California Half DollarA Uruguay-born sculptor, mapmaker, and self-styled Westerner who designed one of the most loved commemorative coins.
- Joel Iskowitz: The 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 sketches became a 1924 U.S. coin
- John Eckstein: Sculptor Behind the Draped Bust LibertyThe court sculptor who modeled America's Draped Bust Liberty — for thirty dollars.
- John Flanagan — Who Designed the Washington QuarterHe lost the contest — and won the coin you carry every day.
- John Frederick Lewis: Designer of the 1926 Half DollarThe Philadelphia lawyer who sketched a U.S. coin — and waited forty years for his name on it.
- John Howard Benson: Stone 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 Baseball Dollar DesignerThe self-taught Connecticut artist who won a national contest — and put a pitch that looked like Nolan Ryan on a U.S. silver dollar.
- John R. Sinnock — Designer of the Roosevelt DimeThe Mint engraver whose two initials touched off a Cold War rumor — and who designed the dime still in your pocket.
- John R. Sinnock — Designer of the Roosevelt DimeHis two letters on a coin once made Americans whisper about Soviet spies.
- John Reich: The Engraver Who Redesigned 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 when the raise never came.
- John Smith Gardner: The U.S. Mint's Lost EngraverHe cut the punches behind America's first copper coins — then walked into the dark.
- Joseph A. Bailly — Sculptor of a Rejected U.S. CoinThe Philadelphia sculptor who designed a U.S. coin the Mint refused to strike
- Joseph D. Pena — Bill of Rights Gold Coin DesignerThe artist who put a Madison quote, an eagle, and the torch of freedom on a gold half eagle
- Joseph F. Menna: The Mint's Digital SculptorA comic-book obsessive with classical training who became the U.S. Mint's 13th Chief Engraver — and dragged American coinage into the digital age.
- Joseph Menna — U.S. Mint Chief Engraver & SculptorThe sculptor who taught the U.S. Mint to work in pixels — then was named its Chief Engraver.
- Joseph Wright: First Engraver of the US MintHe cast Washington's face in plaster and shaped America's first portrait of Liberty in copper — then yellow fever took him at 37.
- Juliette May Fraser: Hawaii Coin DesignerThe Honolulu muralist who drew Hawaii's only commemorative coin
- Justin Kunz — US Mint Coin DesignerA game-studio concept artist who spent five years losing coin competitions — then reimagined Liberty for a new century.
- L. W. Hoffecker — Coin Dealer Who Designed a CoinThe El Paso coin dealer who designed, lobbied, and personally sold one of the rarest classic U.S. commemoratives.
- Laura Gardin Fraser: The Sculptor Who Won the Quarter TwiceThe first woman to design an American coin. Twice chosen to portray Washington. Overruled by one man. Vindicated by history.
- Laurie J. Musser — U.S. Mint AIP Coin DesignerThe wildlife artist who drew Christa McAuliffe's hopeful gaze onto a silver dollar
- Laurie Musser — U.S. Mint AIP Coin DesignerThe greeting-card artist the U.S. Mint hired to design its coins.
- LeRoy Transfield: WWI Centennial Silver Dollar DesignerThe sculptor who turned a war his family fought into a silver dollar
- Linda Fox — U.S. Mint Coin Designer (Lady Bird Johnson)A portrait painter the U.S. Mint brought in from the outside — and the gold coin that carries her initials.
- Lyndall Bass: Designer of the Lincoln Shield CentA Santa Fe artist, a nationwide Mint competition, and a shield that has ridden the back of billions of cents.
- Malcolm Farley — 1996 Olympic Half Dollar DesignerThe name on the back of two 1996 Atlanta Olympic half dollars.
- Marcel Jovine: Sculptor of US Commemorative CoinsThe wartime prisoner who built toys, then carved a corner of America's coinage.
- Marika Somogyi — Sculptor 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 who helped design the Norfolk half dollar — and was nearly written out of it
- 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 sculptor whose hands helped carve Liberty's torch.
- Michael Gaudioso — U.S. Mint Sculptor-EngraverA classically trained sculptor who spent a decade translating flat designs into struck metal.
- Miley Busiek (Tucker-Frost): Gold Eagle Reverse DesignerHow a self-taught Texan turned one campaign speech into 35 years of American gold.
- Miley Busiek: Designer of the Gold Eagle ReverseThe self-taught sculptor who lobbied her way onto America's gold coin
- Norman E. Nemeth — US Mint Sculptor-EngraverThe sculptor who put the buffalo back on the nickel — and a Native woman's harvest on the dollar.
- Olin Levi Warner: Sculptor of America's First CommemorativeThe sculptor who drew America's first commemorative coin — and got none of the credit on the coin itself.
- Patricia Lewis Verani — Coin Designer & SculptorA stone-and-wood carver from New Hampshire who shaped four U.S. commemorative coins.
- Patricia Lucas-Morris — U.S. Mint Coin DesignerThe graphite illustrator who draws coins — but never cut a die
- Paul C. Balan: First Filipino U.S. Mint DesignerThe boy from a wood-carving town who became the first Filipino — and first Asian — 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 Mint Sculptor Behind LibertyA sculptor descended from the Saint-Gaudens tradition — now 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 — Sculptor of the Texas Centennial Half DollarThe Italian immigrant who carved Texas into bronze, stone — and silver.
- Renata Gordon — U.S. Mint Medallic ArtistThe Philadelphia sculptor who turned a painter's eye into the coins in your pocket
- Richard Masters — U.S. Mint Coin DesignerThe art professor who walked in off the street and ended up on a $100 gold coin.
- 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 who carved 'Equal Justice Under Law' — and designed the rarest American commemorative coin ever made.
- Robert Ball Hughes: The Sculptor Who Redrew LibertyA London prodigy, the first big bronze cast on American soil, and a single 1840 retouch that still divides a coin series in two.
- Robert Birch — Engraver Behind 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 — Calligrapher of a Coin Made of WordsThe calligrapher who designed a U.S. coin with no picture on it — only words.
- Robert Scot: First Chief Engraver of the US MintA Scottish watchmaker became the first Chief Engraver of the United States Mint — and cut the dies the whole country would carry in its pocket.
- Ron Sanders — U.S. Mint Coin Designer (AIP)A gallery artist and teacher who became one of the Mint's outside hands
- Ronald D. Sanders — U.S. Mint AIP Coin DesignerThe illustrator whose drawings became coins — though he never touched the steel.
- Ronald D. Sanders — U.S. Mint Coin DesignerAn illustrator's pencil behind a decade of U.S. commemorative coins
- Scott R. Blazek — Designer of the Bill of Rights $5 GoldThe pastor and illustrator behind the 1993 Bill of Rights $5 gold coin
- Seth G. Huntington — Bicentennial Half Dollar DesignerThe Minnesota artist who won a national contest — and put Independence Hall in a billion pockets.
- Sherl Joseph Winter — U.S. Mint Sculptor-EngraverThe Mint sculptor whose eagles flew on America's gold coin for 35 years
- Sherl Joseph Winter: U.S. Mint Sculptor-EngraverThe Mint sculptor who turned other artists' drawings into the coins in your hand
- Steven M. Bieda: The Lawmaker Who Designed a U.S. CoinThe coin collector who designed a U.S. coin — then got himself elected to make laws.
- Susan Gamble — First Spouse Gold Coin DesignerThe illustrator who turned the lives of America's First Ladies into gold.
- T. James Ferrell — U.S. Mint EngraverThe Mint engraver who put Columbus, Jefferson and Jackie Robinson into your hand
- Thomas Cleveland — U.S. Mint Coin DesignerThe Oklahoma illustrator the U.S. Mint pulled in from the outside — and who drew its eagle of FREEDOM.
- Thomas D. Rogers: U.S. Mint Sculptor & Coin DesignerThe U.S. Mint sculptor who carved coins by hand — backwards, into the mold itself.
- Thomas Hipschen: Engraver of the Money in Your WalletHe engraved Franklin, Grant, Jackson and Lincoln onto U.S. banknotes — then put his line work on a coin.
- Thomas Sully: The Painter Behind Seated LibertyThe portrait painter whose seated Liberty became the face of American silver.
- Titian Peale: The Naturalist Who Drew an EagleHe spent his life drawing birds from the wild. One of those birds ended up on the silver dollar.
- Tom Nielsen — Designer of the POW Silver DollarA Georgia painter who designed exactly one U.S. coin — and made it count.
- Trygve A. Rovelstad: Coin & Medal SculptorThe Elgin sculptor who designed a coin to pay for a statue — and didn't live to see it stand.
- Victor David Brenner: The Man Behind the Lincoln CentThe immigrant engraver who put Lincoln on a penny — and lost his name on it three days later.
- Walter H. Rich: Maine Naturalist Who Designed 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 — Coin DesignerThe Ann Arbor illustrator who put a waving flag on a U.S. coin
- 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: Mint Engraver of Washington's QuarterThe Mint sculptor who put a gymnast on a coin and trimmed Washington to fit fifty states.
- William J. Krawczewicz: Coin & Banknote DesignerThe designer they call 'Dollar Bill' — because he draws the actual dollar bills.
- William Kneass: 2nd Chief Engraver of the US MintThe mapmaker who became the Mint's second Chief Engraver — and whose career ended at his own workbench.
- William Krawczewicz: The Man Who Designs MoneyHis 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: Sculptor of 3 US Half DollarsThe Rome-trained sculptor who designed three of America's 1930s commemorative half dollars — and gave one of them its quiet, lasting power.
- William Wheeler Hubbell: The Goloid Stella InventorThe 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