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Felix Schlag: A mystery begins to unfold

WeissWeiss Posts: 9,942 ✭✭✭✭✭
edited November 8, 2021 4:40PM in U.S. Coin Forum

I posted images of the new (new) Ron Landis Felix Schlag original concept nickels online for my numismatically challenged friends to see:

While dipping into the story behind Schlag's design, (felixschlag.com, thanks to those folks for the website and information contained within) I found that he actually designed sculptures that were installed in my state.

Not just my state. My home town.

Not just my home town. But the actual high school that I went to. And had grown up a block away from pretty much my whole life.

felixschlag.com had an article indicating that the artwork had disappeared at some point. One of my friends dug a little further and accessed some of the yearbooks from the middle of the 20th century. Lo and behold, he found a pretty clear image of the artwork, now apparently lost to time. It's a long shot, but I've reached out to the school and to the local newspaper to see if they can uncover anything about this missing gem. Schlag wasn't a household name then (or now, let's be honest). But a piece of numismatic history and art should be where all can enjoy it.

Know anyone who's got it?

We are like children who look at print and see a serpent in the last letter but one, and a sword in the last.
--Severian the Lame

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