Thomas D. Rogers

Thomas D. Rogers, Sr. (born August 1945) is a former sculptor-engraver with the United States Mint and designer of several U.S. coins, including the 2000–2008 reverse side of the United States Golden dollar coins, or Sacagawea dollars.

Rogers was raised in Wingdale, New York, and served four years in the United States Navy.

[1] Rogers designed the reverses of four of the State Quarters, including those for Maryland, Massachusetts and South Carolina.

[3] He designed the original reverse of the American Platinum Eagle,[4] which was used on the proof version of that coin's first year (1997) and on non-proof Platinum Eagles of all dates,[1] and designed the reverses of two subsequent years of the proof version of the same coin, those of 1998 and 2001.

[7] In 2014, Rogers designed the reverse of the 2016 Sacagawea dollar,[7][8] which honors Native American code talkers from World Wars I and II.

Among the coins designed by Rogers is the original reverse of the U.S. dollar coin popularly known as the Sacagawea dollar . It depicts an eagle in flight.