Word: indianhead
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Indianhead nickel...
...this week James Earle Fraser, 74, is being honored with the gold medal of the National Institute of Arts and Letter* and with a big show. Most of the work that made him famous reflects his first childhood choice of subject. The best-known Fraser sculpture of all: the Indianhead nickel, with a buffalo on the reverse, that the U.S. Treasury issued in 1913. Until it was superseded in 1939 by the Jefferson nickel, U.S. mints stamped out more than a billion of them...