The competition winner who placed a colonial drummer and victory torch on the 1976 Bicentennial quarter reverse.
生平
Ahr worked as a commercial artist and entered the national Bicentennial coin design competition. His quarter proposal was selected for one of three temporary reverses dated 1776-1976.
风格与影响
The reverse combines a frontal military drummer with a ring of thirteen stars and a torch, using bold elements that remain legible at quarter scale. The design was produced in clad and silver-clad formats and remains a widely encountered example of an outside public competition shaping circulating coinage.