Information & News About United States Coins
The Citizens Coinage Advisory Committee (CCAC) has announced that it will hold a videoconference on November 19th. The meeting, open to the public, is set to start at 1:00 PM Eastern time and conclude at 4:00 PM. Currently, there are four primary agenda items for the CCAC meeting on the 19th: If you want to watch the meeting’s live stream, you can do so on the Mint’s YouTube Channel. To watch the meeting live, click …
The Citizens Coinage Advisory Committee (CCAC) is set to hold a two-day meeting on October 15th and 16th to review, among other items, the 2026 Semiquincentennial Dimes and Quarter designs. The meeting will be held via videoconference, and is open to the public. On October 15th, the meeting will begin at 9:00 AM Eastern and end at 4:00 PM. On October 16th, the meeting will begin at 8:00 AM Eastern with a scheduled closing at …
On the first day of their scheduled meeting this week, the Citizens Coinage Advisory Committee (CCAC) released the design candidates for several 2026 Semiquincentennial coins. The design candidates cover the upcoming 2026 Dime, Quarter, and Half Dollar changes. These design candidates join the previously released Cent and Nickel candidates. The design candidates are radical departures from the current designs of the Dime, Quarter, and Half Dollar. Note that the CCAC only released two of the …
The Citizens Coinage Advisory Committee (CCAC) will be holding a two-day public meeting this month. The meeting is slated for July 15-16 from 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM Eastern both days. The committee will be meeting in person in Washington, D.C., and all interested members of the public are welcome to watch a live stream of the meeting on the Mint’s YouTube channel. The primary agenda item for the two-day meeting is review of the …
The Citizens Coinage Advisory Committee (CCAC) will be holding a public meeting today. The meeting is slated for two hours, from 2:00 to 4:00 PM Eastern. There are two agenda items for the meeting, the first of which is the 2026 Native American Dollar design candidates. Readers may recall that the CCAC has already released design candidates for the 2026 Native American Dollar. These were released as part of their April 16th meeting. Subsequently, CCAC …
The United States Mint announced today that the Deputy Secretary of the Treasury has appointed Sam Gelberd to the Citizens Coinage Advisory Committee (CCAC) as the member specially qualified by virtue of their experience in numismatics, effective April 23, 2024. He replaces Dennis Tucker, who served on the CCAC from 2016 to 2024. Sam will serve a statutory four-year term. Sam Gelberd is an independent numismatist and former middle school teacher, holding a B.A. degree …
The United States Mint announced today that the Deputy Secretary of the Treasury has appointed Jeanne Stevens-Sollman to the Citizens Coinage Advisory Committee (CCAC) as the member specially qualified by virtue of her experience in the medallic arts and sculpture, effective May 23, 2024. She previously served on the CCAC from 2012 through 2022 as a member representing the interest of the general public. She replaces Darla Jackson, who briefly served on the CCAC in …
The Citizens Coinage Advisory Committee (CCAC) has released the design candidate images for the upcoming Joseph R. Biden Jr. Presidential Medal. The design was released last week during a regularly scheduled CCAC meeting. The President Biden medal will be released later this year, regardless of the results of the 2024 Presidential Election. The Presidential Medal series has been a regular Mint production for several years. The medal series commemorates each United States President – and …
Ahead of today’s Citizens Coinage Advisory Committee (CCAC) meeting, candidate images of the Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley Congressional Gold Medal have been released. The Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley Congressional Gold Medal is to be issued next year. Emmett Louis Till (July 25, 1941 – August 28, 1955) was an African American boy who was abducted, tortured, and lynched in Mississippi in 1955 at the age of 14, after being accused of offending a white woman, Carolyn Bryant, in her family’s grocery store. …
Ahead of tomorrow’s Citizens Coinage Advisory Committee (CCAC) meeting, candidate images of the 2025 United States Marine Corps Commemorative Coins have been released. These are the designs that the CCAC are considering for the $5 Gold Coin, $1 Silver Dollar Coin, and Half Dollar Clad Coin. The 2025 United States Marine Corps Commemoratives are scheduled to be released early next year. The United States Marine Corps (USMC), also referred to as the United States Marines, is the maritime land …