The "Mercury" dime and "Liberty" half dollar were also his designs.
In 1946, the year after he died in office, Franklin D. Roosevelt's image replaced the Mercury dime.
US Walking Liberty Half Dollar, and possible model for the Mercury dime (both 1916)
The reverse of the United States "Mercury" dime (minted from 1916 to 1945) bears the design of a fasces and an olive branch.
The Walking Liberty half dollar and Mercury dime had been first issued in 1916; they could be replaced without congressional action from and after 1940.
Actual production of the 50-cent piece was delayed as the Mint struggled to finalize Weinman's Mercury dime.
The Mercury dime is a ten-cent coin struck by the United States Mint from 1916 to 1945.
The Mercury dime was released into circulation October 30, 1916, the same day that production of the Barber dime ceased.
Of the three circulating coins first struck in 1916, the Mercury dime was particularly praised.
Many Mercury dimes were not fully struck, meaning that design detail was lost even before the coins entered circulation.