JAZ Numismatics Posted December 27, 2024 · Member Posted December 27, 2024 (edited) GIlroy Roberts was the US MInt engraver that designed the Kennedy Half Dollar. Soon after, in 1964, Roberts left the to join the Franklin Mint, a private foundation established in the same year. He is to date, the only engraver that has resigned his position at the US Mint. He cited artistic stagnation as his reason for going solo. While at the Franklin mint, he designed a number of imaginative medals and sculptures. Here are two Christmas medals. The first shows carolers outside a house on the obverse and a family decorating a Christmas tree on the reverse - so the obverse becomes the outside of the house and the reverse the inside. (I've never seen this idea on a medal before.) The coin is packaged in a carboard holder that can stand on its own using a bendable flap at the bottom of the reverse side... The second features some decidedly heavenly beings playing instruments (these ain't your grandpa's angels). The text is excepted from the carol Adeste Fideles, although the first word is spelled Adestes, which in Latin means "you are present," as opposed to the traditional Adeste, or "be present." I wonder if this was intentional, or a mistake... Edited December 27, 2024 by JAZ Numismatics 11 Quote
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