In 1952, British sculptor Mary Gaskell Gillick OBE’s effigy design was selected from a field of 17 to be used on general-circulation coinage for the new Queen Elizabeth II, first issued in 1953 ...
Born in Elizabeth, NJ on October 29, 1936 to Francis and Esther (Gillick) Sharkey. She graduated from St. Mary's High School in Elizabeth and later St. Elizabeth Hospital School of Nursing ...