Modern essays and stories; a book to awaken appreciation of modern prose, and to develop ability and originality in writing, ed with introduction, notes, suggestive questions, subjects for written imitation directions for writing, and original illustrations . ting along? Iwant to make a suggestion. It seems to me worth while totry for a really good coinage; though I suppose there willbe a revolt about it! I was looking at some gold coins ofAlexander the Great to-day, and I was struck by their highrelief. Would it not be well to have our coins in high re-lief, and also to have the rims raised?
Modern essays and stories; a book to awaken appreciation of modern prose, and to develop ability and originality in writing, ed with introduction, notes, suggestive questions, subjects for written imitation directions for writing, and original illustrations . ting along? Iwant to make a suggestion. It seems to me worth while totry for a really good coinage; though I suppose there willbe a revolt about it! I was looking at some gold coins ofAlexander the Great to-day, and I was struck by their highrelief. Would it not be well to have our coins in high re-lief, and also to have the rims raised? The point of havingthe rims raised would be, of course, to protect the figure onthe coin; and if we have the figures in high relief, like thefigures on the old Greek coins, they will surely last do you think of this ? With warm regards. Faithfully yours, Theodore Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Windsor, Vermont. Windsor, Vermont, Nov. 11, Mr. President: You have hit the nail on the head with regard to thecoinage. Of course the great coins (and you might almostsay the only coins) are the Greek ones you speak of, justas the great medals are those of the fifteenth century byPisanello and Sperandio. Nothing would please me more. Obverse of the ten-dollar goldpiece, in high relief, and be-fore the addition of the head-dress, on President Koose-velt s suggestion. Obverse of the ten-dollar goldpiece with the Eooseveltfeather head-dress. Beforethe relief was radically low-ered for minting. ?;V^
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