Every American is familiar with the penny. The little copper coin bearing a bust of President Lincoln resides in many a wallet and penny jar across the country.Most Americans use coins every day, but they probably don’t think about the process of designing and minting the coins. Richard Masters, an art professor at UW-Oshkosh, was the same way for a long time.
He said, “You know, when we were kids collecting coins, you never thought about the artist behind the design on there. You thought the coin gods are doing this, or somebody you never heard of. And when you see your own work on something like that it just seems to make the world smaller.”
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