Custom coin, medal designs and medallic art by Tom Rogers, former U.S. Mint Sculptor / Engraver
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January 15, 2011 by
Pictured here is a montage of some of the outstanding wildlife encountered in the state of Oregon. A Bald Eagle, Elk, and Salmon. In the backgound, you can see one of the many costal lighthouses, and mountains which symbolize the “Three Sisters Wilderness”. The medal emphasizes the beauty and life that abound here. A Douglas fir rises up throughout the design and caresses the name “OREGON”.
Also shown here is the manner in which I have chosen to market these medals. I call them “MEDALS N’ MYRTLEWOOD”. Myrtlewood is a very hard and beautifully grained wood that grows mostly in Israel, and on the Oregon coast.
The medals are 2 1/2″ in diameter, and are set into 3 1/2″ Myrtlewood rounds. Each comes with it’s own min-easel for display.
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January 15, 2011 by
Pictured here is a stained glass window that I designed which depicts “CREATION” as described in the first book of the old Testament titled Genesis.
I did the design, and my wife Margaret transferred it to stained glass. We installed it on an inside wall of the Beatty Valley Gospel Mission, and put in a lightbox behind it.
We attend services at the mission, and so numerous were the compliments on the design, I sculpted it as a pendant, and paired it with an early Christian influenced sculpture of Jesus Christ on the other side.
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January 13, 2011 by
This page includes some of the medals that I followed through with a complete medal program of design, sculpture, certificates of authenticity, encapsulation, and delivery.
I have also created over a dozen Postal Cancellations, and have in some instances, enlarged them and actually hand cancelled some of them myself on the first day of issue. The Cape Disappointment Lighthouse 150th anniversary was a case where I designed a medal and postal cancellation, and even composed a poem in it’s honor. I was pleased to have attended the Anniversary event, read my poem, and presented a signed copy to the Coast Guard Station there at Cape Disappointment in Ilwaco, WA.
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