Anyone planning on submitting a design for the 2019 Apollo 11 50th Anniversary Commemorative coin?
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These will be curved coins to make it more challenging
Application deadline to enter is June 29, 2017.
I hope we get some good designs, unlike the past ones.
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Dan / @dcarr should definitely submit a design given his interest in this and his multiple Apollo small dollar design proposals.
If Dan sends a minted example with his designs, would the pieces be bonafide patterns?
Here's one of my Apollo rollers from Dan:
They messed up by already having one side pre-designed. I think a cool design would have been to have the surface of the moon as the convex side, with the landing site on there, and have astronauts looking out the space shuttle window at the moon (or earth) on the concave side. Could have been really nice!
A couple little problems, the shuttle's first flight was in 1981. All the Moon landing missions were completed by the end of 1972 in Apollo spacecraft launched by Saturn V rockets.
Second, the Moon is roughly 240,000 miles away. Even if the shuttle were in existence in 1969, it's highest designed altitude was ~ 650 miles. In practice the highest it went was about 400 miles to put the Hubble Telescope up there (and occasionally refurbish it).
With regards to the coins, I'd like the largest coin, which I guess would be a silver dollar, to have representations of the workers that designed and built the spacecraft. There were roughly 400,000 people working on the program, and without their dedication the astronauts would never have made it to the Moon.
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OK, easy fix. Have them staring out the Apollo Spacecraft window
It seems the Mint is not accepting physical samples at this time, but it would still be great to get his submissions, like his baseball coin designs.
I am sure some interesting - maybe even great - designs will be submitted. However, since it will be decision by committee, we can usually count on some diluted, pablum design being chosen. Such a great opportunity to use coinage to commemorate one of the greatest achievements of the United States - and humans - that will likely be reduced to some politically correct, inoffensive in any aspect (including the justifiably proud display of American scientific success) presentation. Cheers, RickO
The way the competition is structured, you have to first submit three to five examples of your past (recent) work.
Then the Mint will choose about 20 applicants to actually submit designs for the coin. Only submissions from those actually selected will be considered. Selected artists will be paid a nominal amount for their submission. The winner will receive more. This is similar to the "Artistic Infusion Program" except that the selected applicants will only be selected for this one design competition.
I participated in the recent WW1 commemorative coin design competition. That program was structured in a manner similar to the Apollo 11 competition. I applied and was selected as one of the 20 or so artists to submit designs. That competition had a significant difference, however. Artists were asked to submit physical 3D "sculpts" in addition to graphic illustrations. This is something that I had been suggesting for a long time. For the Apollo 11 competition, there is no solicitation for physical models from the artists. Perhaps the mint decided that the WW1 sculpture solicitation was not beneficial or useful ? Or maybe the Mint decided that soliciting sculpts for the Apollo 11 coins would be problematic due to the fact that they will be cupped ?
The Mint has not yet released any images of the selected WW1 design. I have been informed that I did not win. I will release images of my design once the Mint releases images of their selected design. Since that design competition involved the submission of 3D sculpts, it was not a stretch for me to take that further and strike some actual coins (which I did). I will strike a few more fairly soon. I've created a placeholder for it in my catalog (no picture yet, second section from the top):
moonlightmint.com/dc-coin_dollars_list.htm
Good luck in the competition Dan.... Cheers, RickO
How about a "Friendly Eagle" biting the neck of a "Russian Bear" while playing golf on the moon?
Seriously though....art should express the essence and meaning of the event. Maybe that is not a literal or hackneyed allegory as used on the Ike and Anthony dollars. Maybe it requires perception beyond the usual and ordinary - a perception of the place this event has in the future of humanity. It was a first touch beyond our own little blue world; the next will not occur until humans reach Mars; and then....?
,> @dcarr said:
...I will release images of my design once the Mint releases images of their selected design. Since that design competition involved the submission of 3D sculpts, it was not a stretch for me to take that further and strike some actual coins (which I did). I will strike a few more fairly soon. I've created a placeholder for it in my catalog (no picture yet, second section from the top):
And hopefully for sale soon.
Sight unseen, I'm in for at least one silver token and one overstrike.
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Ditto
I second this commitment. If I could pre-order, sight unseen, I would.