Mount Rushmore was carved between 1927 and 1941 under sculptor Gutzon Borglum, who died two months before its completion — his son Lincoln finished the work. The site was never fully completed; the original design called for the presidents to be depicted to the waist, and a Hall of Records was to be blasted into the mountain behind the faces, a project abandoned when federal funding dried up during the war.
Solomon Islands has become one of the more prolific issuers of large-format gold bullion pieces for the collector market, with little connection to the subject matter beyond the licensing arrangement.
Mount Rushmore was carved between 1927 and 1941 under sculptor Gutzon Borglum, who died two months before its completion — his son Lincoln finished the work. The site was never fully completed; the original design called for the presidents to be depicted to the waist, and a Hall of Records was to be blasted into the mountain behind the faces, a project abandoned when federal funding dried up during the war.
Solomon Islands has become one of the more prolific issuers of large-format gold bullion pieces for the collector market, with little connection to the subject matter beyond the licensing arrangement.