American Heroes Lance Armstrong Signature Set
2002 Silver American Eagle MS69 PCGS

Owner Comments:

[Cancer] put pain in perspective for me, it put suffering and defeat in perspective. The illness taught me how to really suffer and suffer slowly, and it's not as if you get sick and it hurts and a week later you get better. It's a long type of suffering, physical, emotional, mental, social. It gave me a certain sense of hunger and drive and determination that I was going to come back and give it my all.-Lance Armstrong. - Since joining the United States Mint team of sculptor-engravers in 1974, Mr. Mercanti has been involved in the creation of many memorable coins and medals. His achievements include the 1984 Olympic gold ten-dollar coin, 1986 Statue of Liberty dollar coin, 1989 Congress Bicentennial gold five-dollar coin, obverse of the 1990 Eisenhower Centennial silver dollar, obverse of the 1991 Mount Rushmore five-dollar coin, and obverse of the 1991 Korean War Memorial silver dollar. In 2004, Mr. Mercanti was sculpted-engraved the reverse of the Dr. Dorothy Height Congressional Gold Medal, produced in just nine days.