Frank Gasparro, the designer of the Lincoln Head penny, the Susan B. Anthony dollar and other coins, died on Saturday. The below url links to his an interesting obituary.

http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/03/obituaries/03GASP.html

October 3 -- From the leading editorial of todays New York Times

"The attacks of Sept. 11 caught the Fed at just the wrong time."