HEWITT, Clifford ( ) U.S. Mint technician, attributed as designer.
Two authors on Philippine coins, Neil Shafer and Aldo P.
Basso, attribute the design of the Manila Mint Opening
Medal to Clifford Hewitt, calling him “chief engraver” –
he was more apt as Chief Engineer. Swoger rightly rejects
Hewitt as an engraver, stating Hewitt was the technician
charged with overseeing the consruction and installation
of the equipment and instructing employees in its use at
the new mint in Manila (he was later foreman of machinists
at the Philadelphia Mint)
M E D A L S
1920 Manila Mint Opening Medal (also called Wilson Dollar,
from obv port of Woodrow Wilson engraved by George
Morgan; rev modified from the 1914 Assay Medal
designed by Morgan) [struck on coining press with dollar
blanks from dies made in Philadelphia but struck in
Manila]. . . . . . . . . . HK 449, HK 450, HK-1031;Swoger 23
Auctions:. . . . . . . .CAL 35:646; J&J 16:1505; NAS 22:1818,
NAS 65:2142, NAS 72:526, NAS 72:1060; PCA 45:164,
PCA 49:834, PCA 50:909, PCA 53:121, PCA 56:156,
PCA 56:1232, PCA 58:210, PCA 58:1107-1108, PCA 60:126,
PCA 64:1519, PCA 65:267, PCA 65:985, PCA 70:489
Collection: American Numismatic Society. . . . .1980.43.201
Illustrated: The Numismatist 33:10 (October 1920) p . . . 487
Illustrated: M59 {2008} Hoffman (et al), So-Called Dol p 81
Illustrated: M62 {2008}Swoger, Nat Comm Medals p . . . 79
Illustrated: P3 {2201}Martin ‘Wilson Dollar’ Medal Die p58
N U M I S M A T I C R E F E R E N C E S
M20 {1963} Hibler and Kappen 449–450, p 64.
Xx {1968} Basso (Aldo P.) Coins, Medals and Tokens of the Philippines. Menlo Park
CA: Chenby Publishers (1968) 136 pages, illus. Seond edition 1975.
E17 {1983} Pessolano-Filos, p 53 (suggests Hewitt may have been involved with
Washington Irving Medal by Henning; impossible since this medal issued 1859).
M59 {2008} Hoffman (et al) So-Called Dollars, 2nd edition, p 81.
M62 {2008} Swoger, National Commemorative Medals, 22, p 78-79.
P3 {2012} Martin (Erik) ‘Wilson Dollar’ Medal Obverse Die Surfaces, Coin World
53:2705 (13 Feruary 2012) p 1, 58 (gold medal illus), 60 (obv die illustrated)
[continued the error of calling Hewitt a “chief engraver”].
Two authors on Philippine coins, Neil Shafer and Aldo P.
Basso, attribute the design of the Manila Mint Opening
Medal to Clifford Hewitt, calling him “chief engraver” –
he was more apt as Chief Engineer. Swoger rightly rejects
Hewitt as an engraver, stating Hewitt was the technician
charged with overseeing the consruction and installation
of the equipment and instructing employees in its use at
the new mint in Manila (he was later foreman of machinists
at the Philadelphia Mint)
M E D A L S
1920 Manila Mint Opening Medal (also called Wilson Dollar,
from obv port of Woodrow Wilson engraved by George
Morgan; rev modified from the 1914 Assay Medal
designed by Morgan) [struck on coining press with dollar
blanks from dies made in Philadelphia but struck in
Manila]. . . . . . . . . . HK 449, HK 450, HK-1031;Swoger 23
Auctions:. . . . . . . .CAL 35:646; J&J 16:1505; NAS 22:1818,
NAS 65:2142, NAS 72:526, NAS 72:1060; PCA 45:164,
PCA 49:834, PCA 50:909, PCA 53:121, PCA 56:156,
PCA 56:1232, PCA 58:210, PCA 58:1107-1108, PCA 60:126,
PCA 64:1519, PCA 65:267, PCA 65:985, PCA 70:489
Collection: American Numismatic Society. . . . .1980.43.201
Illustrated: The Numismatist 33:10 (October 1920) p . . . 487
Illustrated: M59 {2008} Hoffman (et al), So-Called Dol p 81
Illustrated: M62 {2008}Swoger, Nat Comm Medals p . . . 79
Illustrated: P3 {2201}Martin ‘Wilson Dollar’ Medal Die p58
N U M I S M A T I C R E F E R E N C E S
M20 {1963} Hibler and Kappen 449–450, p 64.
Xx {1968} Basso (Aldo P.) Coins, Medals and Tokens of the Philippines. Menlo Park
CA: Chenby Publishers (1968) 136 pages, illus. Seond edition 1975.
E17 {1983} Pessolano-Filos, p 53 (suggests Hewitt may have been involved with
Washington Irving Medal by Henning; impossible since this medal issued 1859).
M59 {2008} Hoffman (et al) So-Called Dollars, 2nd edition, p 81.
M62 {2008} Swoger, National Commemorative Medals, 22, p 78-79.
P3 {2012} Martin (Erik) ‘Wilson Dollar’ Medal Obverse Die Surfaces, Coin World
53:2705 (13 Feruary 2012) p 1, 58 (gold medal illus), 60 (obv die illustrated)
[continued the error of calling Hewitt a “chief engraver”].