Lobban Dzhon

John Alexander Lobban (1919-1996) was a British sculptor, designer, watercolorist, numismatic artist and medallist. The Ukrainian Wikipedia article describes him as a council member of the British Art Medal Society and president of the Society of Numismatic Artists and Designers; for Ukrainian numismatics, his key work is the UN-50 coin issue.

In the UA Coins catalog Lobban is associated with two versions of the 1996 UN-50 commemorative coin, in copper-nickel and silver. Coin cards list him as the reverse artist and sculptor, while the obverse was designed by Oleksandr Ivakhnenko. For an author page this is a rare case of international participation in early Ukrainian commemorative coinage: a British medallist worked on the reverse of the coin dedicated to the 50th anniversary of the United Nations, and the Ukrainian article directly calls him the author of the reverse of Ukraine’s first silver coin.