The E-Sylum:  Volume 10, Number 48, November 25, 2007, Article 24

FIRST SPOUSES GOLD: JOEL ISKOWITZ' DOLLEY MADISON COIN RELEASED

[The Dolley Madison coins were launched in a White House
ceremony this week. -Editor]

First Lady Laura Bush paid tribute Monday to "one of
America's most beloved first ladies" - Dolley Madison -
at the unveiling of a coin in Madison's honor.

Madison's coin, unveiled by Mint Director Edmund Moy, is
the fourth in the first ladies coins, the first coin series
to honor only women. The series moves chronologically;
already in coin are Martha Washington, Abigail Adams and
Lady Liberty, who appears in lieu of a first lady for
Thomas Jefferson, who was not married at the time of his
presidency.

Carlynn Walker, a fifth-grader at Pearl Sample Elementary
School in Culpeper, Va., and Lucinda Frailly, an actress
playing Dolley Madison, noted Madison's famous rescue of
a portrait of George Washington when the British marched
into the nation's capital during the War of 1812 and set
fire to the White House. The portrait was hanging in the
East Room of the White House where Monday's ceremony took place.

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[The Dolley Madison reverse was designed by Joel Iskowitz
of Woodstock, New York, a U.S. Mint Artistic Infusion Program
Master Designer. The image was sculpted by Don Everhart,
United States Mint sculptor-engraver. -Editor]

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  Wayne Homren, Editor

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