portrai Öffentlichkeit Deposited
1. Representation of an individual as such, as of George Washington on many Early American coins. 2. Representation of an individual as a personification, as Teresa Cafarelli de Francisci on the Peace dollar. Composite portraits, such as the Indian on the buffalo nickel, fit in here. However, the presidential effigies on current U.S. coins are legally "impression(s) emblematic of liberty" rather than portraits! 31 U.S.C. 324, Sect. 3517.
- Breen Encyclopedia