Originally produced in 1929 by the Medallic Art Company, The Medal Maker documents the creation of the prestigious Medal of Honor for the National Sculpture Society by master sculptress Laura Gardin Fraser. In 1997, video producer Michael Craven, with funding from the American Numismatic Society (ANS), produced a new version of the film that featured a newly produced introduction and...

by Charles Morgan and Hubert Walker...   “A Plain System, Void of Pomp” is an inscription found on an 1834-dated Hard Times Token. It satirizes the seventh president Andrew Jackson and his idea of democracy for the working class and a railing against the aristocratic Whigs. The phrase comes from a letter of protest that Jackson sent to the United States Senate on April 15,...