Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 262, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 November 1916 — Initials of Artist May Stop The Coinage of New Dimes. [ARTICLE]

Initials of Artist May Stop The Coinage of New Dimes.

Washington, Oct. 30.—Treasury officials of the designer of the new dime, put in circulation today for the first time, shall be eliminated and coinage suspended temporarily, as was done in the case of the original Lincoln 1-cent piece. On the face of the dime the initials of the artis‘t, A. Weinman, appear prominently in monogram. When the Lincoln cent piece was first coined it bore unobtrusively on the base of the bust small initials of the artist. While there is no law governing the question, the treasury department ordered the letters off under its ruling that no advertisement shall appear upon any coin. In all SIBO,OOO-worth of the new coins have been. minted.