The Citizens Coinage Advisory Committee (CCAC) recently held the first of two meetings–from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.–on Tuesday, June 16 at the United States Mint in Washington, D.C.
It was CCAC member Mary Lannin’s first public outing as Committee Chairman, replacing outgoing Committee Chair Gary Marks, whose four-year term of service to the committee expires this year.
After introducing herself as the new chairman and passing motions to approve the minutes from the March and April meetings, Lannin promptly began discussion of the day’s topics.
First on the agenda was the 2016 National Park Service 100th Anniversary Commemorative Coin Program.
After introducing herself as the new chairman and passing motions to approve the minutes from the March and April meetings, Lannin promptly began discussion of the day’s topics.
First on the agenda was the 2016 National Park Service 100th Anniversary Commemorative Coin Program.
April Stafford, Program Manager of the U.S. Mint’s Office of Sales and Marketing, provided background on the matter, including program details and the intent of the authorizing legislation.
Betty Birdsong, Stakeholders Relations Program Manager at the Mint, and Donald Leadbetter, Partnership Coordinator at the National Park Service Centennial Office, also participated in the meeting.
As she did for each of the coins and medals on the agenda, Stafford next presented designs for the obverse and reverse of the $5 gold coin.
As she did for each of the coins and medals on the agenda, Stafford next presented designs for the obverse and reverse of the $5 gold coin.
While stating that the field of candidates for the gold National Park Service commemorative was the strongest from among all those submitted to the centennial program, Erik Jensen expressed concern that the CCAC and the Mint had given participating artists too narrow design parameters.
The results, Jensen said, were bad designs–but it wasn’t the artists’ fault.
Jensen then went on to suggest that certain symbols, such as the famous arrowhead logo of the National Park Service, would serve better on the $1 silver coin, and recommended some gold designs be considered for the silver dollar.
Jensen then went on to suggest that certain symbols, such as the famous arrowhead logo of the National Park Service, would serve better on the $1 silver coin, and recommended some gold designs be considered for the silver dollar.
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