Being an admirer of sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens, who sculpted some of the most beautiful coins and medallions ever struck, I was overjoyed to be commissioned to design this coin, and presumptuous enough to fantasize that I was traipsing vaguely in the footsteps of Saint-Gaudens. (who spins in his grave like a lathe at the writing of this sentence.) The subjects were Mayor Alfred E. Vellucci of Cambridge, Massachusetts on one side and the Cambridge City Hall on the reverse. I was told that at the Cambridge City Hall Centennial parade, the mayor rode in an open limousine, flinging the coins (struck from the finest aluminum) to the citizens of Cambridge as a Caesar might to the masses.

The coolest thing about the coins is that they were manufactured by the same company that makes Mardi Gras "doubloons" in New Orleans.