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 http://thetreasurecorner.com.
