Ever Wonder About the Process of Designing US Coins and Medals
Casabrown
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Your ideas matter, your voice matters, and with the Citizens Coinage Advisory Committee and the United States Mint, we, together, can make our coins shine bright like the stars and stripes!
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Thank you for posting about this. As a little guy I have wondered but until you started sharing I never felt a way to connect.
Thanks again. James
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I gotta be honest, I don't really believe collector input matters much, if at all. If collectors really had a voice, we wouldn't have gotten 95% of the junk from the mint the last 30 years, or since 1979 for that matter.
We've been begging to get rid of dead people and restore classic Liberty images (not necessarily the exact same ones - see the 1977 pattern dollar). We can't even get copper cents in mint/proof sets, or coin silver (90%) on the new Peace dollars (99.9 fine has reduced them to overpriced souvenirs).
Among the current 11 members of the CCAC, there are six collectors, who are willing to share their views, answer your questions, and hear your suggestions at the Pittsburgh ANA meeting next month.
@Casabrown... Thank you for this information. It will be a good opportunity for collectors to be heard, and perhaps, get some more artistic coin designs. Cheers, RickO
For the input of collectors to be heard, there is a need for collectors to exercise all options to ask questions and offer suggestions. Besides message boards or letters to the editors of numismatic journals, they need to use other opportunities such as participating in public sessions such as the CCAC forum at the ANA meeting and the public meetings of the CCAC, announced in the Federal Register. Also, the number of inquiries or suggestions via the CCAC email (Info@CCAC.gov) is well below the comments I have seen on this message board or other letters to the editors. Since January 2023, the CCAC has received via its email address less than 40 questions or suggestions regarding designs for future circulating and commemorative coins and medals. Review of current submissions will be discussed and reviewed to inform the CCAC's recommendations to the Secretary of Treasury by the next public meeting of the CCAC.
For these reasons, as CCAC Chair, my focus has been to continue to make the public and the numismatic communities aware of the importance of their roles to continue to tell the story of this country via our coins and medals.
Back when I worked with an auction house, one of the items I handled was a journal of sketches by James B. Longacre. There were illustrations of coin designs and design elements among his works.
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Time to retire FDR and JFK.
NOT, repeat NOT, a political comment, so please refrain. Just time for something new IMHO.
I'll be honest, too. I don't think we'll ever see a ...new... design allegory of Liberty.
Liberty isn't a priority in this country anymore. Other than a word on a coin, I doubt many young people could offer even a close approximation of a definition of Liberty.
You now have another comment through the email address posted. All good, for it is easy to complain, harder to be constructive. Thank you for your work, and pass that on to the other ten members of the committee. Be bold, listen and make this Nation's coinage the envy of the world. Thank you.
I want to thank everyone who posted a comment or suggestion since my last post.
As for the comment of a design allegorical of Liberty, I suggest that you review the link: https://www.usmint.gov/learn/coin-and-medal-programs/american-liberty
Every two years since 2015, the mint has produced designs on gold coins and silver medals with modern depictions allegorical of Liberty. The 2021 gold coin won the award of best gold coin.
Lastly, pleaseeeeee, send your suggestions and questions to the CCAC via its email address at Info@CCAC.gov.
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Casa. Hopefully this works. I enclosed my email just blocked it for this post. Thanks
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Lastly, pleaseeeeee, send your suggestions and questions to the CCAC via its email address at Info@CCAC.gov.