1986 Liberty Silver Dollar Date: 1986, Mint: San Francisco, Diameter: 1.5 inches / 3,81 cm, Fineness: .900 fine, Weight: 86 troy oz. / 26,73 g, Content: Silver .77 troy oz., Copper .09 troy oz (Traditional content for U.S. Silver Dollar) Design: OBV: The Statue of Liberty Silver Dollar was created from the artist's feeling of majesty derived from the frontal view of the Statue; REV: Liberty's torch and the words of Emma Lazarus' poem, "The New Colossus,' cited as the inspiration for the reverse OBVERSE DESIGN BY John Mercanti, Sculptor Engraver, United States Mint, BORN: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1943, EDUCATION: Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts; Philadelphia College of Art WORK: Designed the 1984 Olympic gold coin and assisted with the design of the reverse of the 1983 Olympic silver dollar; illustrations for the U.S. Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps; commissions for commercial art work and for book illustrations; designed many Mint medals and medallions including the Louis Armstrong medal; Director of the Mint medal, John Steinbeck and Helen Hayes gold medallions; obverse of the U.S./ Netherlands medal; reverses of the J, Edgar Hoover and Harry S. Truman medals REVERSE DESIGN BY MATTHEW PELOSO AND JOHN MERCANTI; Matthew Peloso Sculptor Engraver, United States Mint BORN: Salerno, Italy, 1918, EDUCATION: Cooper Union; Ecole de Beaux-Arts; Rinehart School of Sculpture: Maryland Institute College of Art WORK: Free-lance scuipturai commissions; teacher of sculpture U.S. Mint since 1973, designer of reverse of the George Washington Commemorative half dollar and of many Mint medals, including the obverses of the Army Bicentennial and Harry S Truman medals and the Mark Twain gold medallion, and the reverses of the Colorado Centennial, President Gerald R. Ford, Navy Bicentennial, and Hubert H. Humphrey medals See photos for further texts.