Dating
1975
Obverse
SHALL I COMPARE / THEE TO A SUMMER’S DAY? / THOU ART MORE LOVELY AND MORE / TEMPERATE: ROUGH WINDS DO SHAKE / THE DARLING BUDS OF MAY, AND SUMMER’S / LEASE HATH ALL TOO SHORT A DATE; / SOMETIME TOO HOT THE EYE OF HEAVEN / SHINES, AND OFTEN IS HIS GOLD / COMPLEXION DIMM'D; AND EVERY / FAIR FROM FAIR SOMETIME / DECLINES,, inscription; quotation from Shakespeare's 18th Sonnet
Reverse
BY CHANCE OR / NATURE’S CHANGING COURSE, / UNTRIMM'D; BUT THY ETERNAL / SUMMER SHALL NOT FADE, NOR LOSE / POSSESSION OF THAT FAIR THOU OWEST; / NOR SHALL DEATH BRAG THOU WANDER’ST / IN HIS SHADE, WHEN IN ETERNAL LINES / TO TIME THOU GROWEST: SO LONG AS / MEN CAN BREATH, OR EYES CAN / SEE, SO LONG LIVES THIS, AND / THIS GIVES LIFE TO / THEE., inscription; quotation from Shakespeare's 18th Sonnet
