A left-facing profile of Franklin D. Roosevelt occupies most of the obverse space. Inside the smooth rim in front of Roosevelt’s face is the word LIBERTY. IN GOD WE TRUST in smaller letters is positioned below the chin. The date is squeezed into the space inside the rim and beneath the neck truncation, to the right of the designer’s initials JS (The Cold War that followed World War II heightened public fears about the Soviet Union, and a rumor spread that John Sinnock’s initials JS, appearing under Roosevelt’s profile, referred …