Thomas D. Rogers

US Dollar coin engraved by Rogers.
Obverse: Sacagawea with her son Jean Baptiste Charbonneau, US national motto, year and Liberty on top. Reverse: Eagle in flight, country name, face value and E pluribus unum (Out of many, one).
Coin popularly know as Sacagawea dollar.

Thomas D. Rogers, Sr. (born 1945) is a former sculptor-engraver with the United States Mint and designer of the 2000–2008 reverse side of the United States Golden dollar coins, or Sacagawea dollars.[1] Rogers holds an A.A.S. degree with a major in commercial art. He joined the U.S. Mint in October 1991, working at the Philadelphia Mint facility, and retired in 2001.[2] As of 2003 he was residing in Long Beach, Washington,[3] and as of 2009 he was living and working in Oregon.[2] His design for the Sacagawea dollar was modified slightly before it went into circulation.[1]


Rogers also designed the reverses of four of the State Quarters, including those for Maryland, Massachusetts and South Carolina.[3] He also designed include the reverses of three years of the American Platinum Eagle (including the original reverse, used on non-proof Platinum Eagles of all dates),[1] the obverses of the 1996 silver $1 coin commemorating the 150th anniversary of the Smithsonian Institution[4] and the 2000 Library of Congress $10 coin,[5] and designed both sides of several other United States commemorative coins.[2]

Although retired from the U.S. Mint, Rogers has subsequently carried out some design work for the Mint as an independent artist under contract.[6] In 2014, Rogers designed the reverse of the 2016 Sacagawea dollar,[6][7] which honors Native American code talkers from World Wars I and II.[7]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Yeoman, R. S. (2009). Bressett, Kenneth, ed. The Official Red Book: A Guide Book of United States Coins (63rd Edition: 2010). Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.: Whitman Publishing. pp. 226–227, 346–348. ISBN 978-079482763-2.
  2. 1 2 3 Roach, Steve (April 20, 2009). "Former U.S. Mint sculptor-engraver shares secrets at ANA". Coin World. Vol. 50 no. 2558. p. 100.
  3. 1 2 Hamilton, Don (August 19, 2003). "Flip a coin: Heads … or salmon? or beavers? Get ready to rumble as state gears up to design its new quarter". Portland Tribune. Portland, Oregon. Retrieved February 20, 2014.
  4. ↑ Heyman, J. Mechael (September 1996). "Smithsonian Perspectives - Coins from James Smithson's bequest created the Institution; on our anniversary, commemorative coins from the U.S. Mint will help it to continue". Smithsonian. Vol. 27 no. 6. p. 10.
  5. ↑ "U.S. Mint Announces Library of Congress Commemorative Coins" (Press release). United States Mint. April 17, 2000. Retrieved December 24, 2012.
  6. 1 2 Gilkes, Paul (February 15, 2016). "2016 Native American Dollar: U.S. Mint Launches Sales of Circulation-Quality Coins". Coin World. Vol. 57 no. 2914. p. 4.
  7. 1 2 United States Mint (August 29, 2014). "United States Mint Announces Designs for 2015 and 2016 Native American $1 Coins" (Press release). Retrieved February 14, 2016.
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