Owner Comments:
Mintage - 125.6 M
Composition - Cupro-Nickel
(8.33% Ni/Balance Cu)
Diameter - 0.955 in./24.26 mm
Thickness - 1.75 mm
Weight - 5.670 g
Edge - Reeded (119 reeds)
Obverse Sculptor/Designer - William Cousins
Reverse Sculptor - Phebe Hemphill, Medallic Artist
Reverse Designer - Justin Kunz, Artistic Infusion Program
Background From U.S. Mint - Weir Farm National Historic Site in Connecticut includes a 68-acre cultural landscape consisting of 15 historic structures, including houses, barns, studios, and outbuildings. The landscape features bedrock outcrops, historic gardens, stone terraces, specimen trees, orchards, fields, miles of stone laid walls, a pond, and hundreds of historic painting sites–all expertly preserved. The artistic tradition at Weir Farm is kept alive through a variety of Art in the Park programs, including an artist-in-residence program, free art supplies, night painting, and art lessons.