Diane Wolf, 53, Pushed for Coinage Redesign

Diane Wolf, who died January 10, was a philanthropist based in Manhattan and Washington, D.C., who once made headlines for masterminding a plan to resign America’s currency.

Wolf died at 53 during a medical procedure at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, her family said.

While serving as a presidential appointee of the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts in the 1980s, Wolf became an advocate for redesigning the nation’s coinage. “The designs are nice, but they’re dull and outdated,” she told the Los Angeles Times at the time. Read Full Story

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