Coin | Front Design – “Heads” | Back Design – “Tails” | Diameter |
Color of Metal (Not the actual composition) | Edge |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Penny | Abraham Lincoln | The Lincoln Memorial | 19.05 mm | Copper | Smooth |
Nickel | Thomas Jefferson | Monticello, Jefferson’s home in Virginia | 21.21 mm | Nickel | Smooth |
Dime | Franklin Delano Roosevelt | A torch, an olive branch, and an oak branch | 17.91 mm | Silver | Ridges |
Quarter | George Washington | Eagle holding branch or a state-based design | 24.26 mm | Silver | Ridges |
Half Dollar | John F. Kennedy | Presidential Coat of Arms | 30.61 mm | Silver | Ridges |
S.B.A. Dollar | Susan B. Anthony | The Eagle Insignia from NASA’s Apollo 11 Mission (the first manned moon landing, 1969) | 26.5 mm | Silver | Ridges |
Golden Dollar | Sacagawea (the Native American guide for Lewis and Clark) and her infant son | Eagle | 26.5 mm | Gold | Smooth |