page_title: Frank Gasparro
section_title: The Susan B. Anthony dollar
hierarchical_section_title: Frank Gasparro / Mint career / The Susan B. Anthony dollar
caption_attribution_description: English: Obverse of a 1999 Susan B. Anthony dollar. Removed background, cropped, and converted to PNG with Macromedia Fireworks.
context_page_description: Frank Gasparro was the tenth Chief Engraver of the United States Mint, holding this position from February 23, 1965, to January 16, 1981. Before that, he was Assistant Engraver. He designed both sides of the Susan B. Anthony dollar, both sides of the Eisenhower Dollar, the Lincoln Memorial reverse of the cent, and the reverse of the Kennedy half dollar.
context_section_description: Asked to produce a design for the Susan B. Anthony dollar, Gasparro was able to find two photos of women's suffrage leader, one at age 28 and the other when she was 84. He initially chose the portrait of the younger Anthony, but widespread consensus was that the design made her look too pretty. His design using the older photo was accepted. While Gasparro felt that the Anthony dollar was his "top achievement", the coin was largely rejected by the public, which complained that the coin was too similar to the Washington Quarter.
  As the Mint's Chief Engraver from 1965 to 1981, Gasparro also created designs for the reverse of the Kennedy half dollar, for which he took painstaking attention to the details of the design of the Seal of the President of the United States, making the words "E pluribus unum" more prominent. Other designs by Gasparro included medals for Winston Churchill, Albert Gallatin, Douglas MacArthur and Sam Rayburn, along with the presidential medals for all Presidents from Lyndon B. Johnson to Ronald Reagan and numerous foreign coins produced by the Mint.  One of his best known works was the obverse of the Congressional gold medal for John Wayne, widely bought by the public in bronze.
caption: Gasparro designed both the obverse (pictured) and reverse of the Susan B. Anthony dollar, which he called his "top achievement", though the coin was largely rejected by the American public
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