Dwight D. Eisenhower
date: label: date made
content: ca 1971
name: label: artist
content: Gasparro, Frank
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: When Gasparro was satisfied with his drawing for a new coin, he produced a version of the drawing in clay. Next, a plaster model, or galvano, was made using the clay version as a mold. When the Dwight D. Eisenhower dollar was manufactured in 1971, the Mint engraver used a plaster model on a lathe to scale the design down to coin size and reproduce the image onto a master hub. Today artists may still make plaster galvanoes to demonstrate their coin design in three dimensions, but the manufacture of the hub is done with computers. Images are scanned onto a computer, and software reduces the object and carves the hub.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
topic: label: Subject
content: Art - Currency
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content: Work and Industry: National Numismatic Collection
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content: Coins, Currency and Medals
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content: Art of Gasparro
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Christina Gasparro Hansen
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2009.0005.006
label: accession number
content: 2009.0005
label: catalog number
content: 2009.0005.006
objectType: label: Object Name
content: plaster model
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plaster (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 17.1 cm x 15.1 cm x 19 mm; 6 3/4 in x 5 15/16 in x 3/4 in