Information & News About United States Coins
The United States Mint has announced that the Citizens Coinage Advisory Committee, or CCAC, will hold a special two-day meeting starting next Tuesday, March 10, 2020. The meeting, as is normal, will be held at the United States Mint Headquarters in Washington, D.C. The agenda for the two day meeting will cover two key topics that impact coinage for this year and in 2021. On Tuesday, March 10th, the main topic will be review and …
As reported last week, the Citizens Coinage Advisory Council (CCAC) is set to meet next Tuesday, January 21, 2020. That meeting is set to discuss designs for medals and a 24-karat gold coin commemorating the 75th anniversary of the end of World War II. In a rare step, CCAC has released candidate images for these medals and coin before the actual meeting. Traditionally, CCAC does not release candidate images of medals or coins until after …
The Citizens Coinage Advisory Committee, or CCAC, has announced an upcoming public meeting. The meeting will be a two hour public meeting to discuss gold coins, silver, and bronze medals commemorating the 75th anniversary of the end of World War II. 2020 marks the end of the six year war which ended on September 2, 1945. The meeting will be held in the United States Mint Headquarters on the January 21, 2020. It will start …
The United States Mint announced the appointment of Dr. Lawrence S. Brown to the Citizens Coinage Advisory Committee (CCAC) as a member representing the interests of the general public in the coinage of the United States. This appointment for a statutory term of four years will fill the vacancy on the CCAC created by the term expiration of Erik Jansen. A life-long numismatist, Dr. Brown traces his fascination with coins back to his adolescence in …
With the America the Beautiful series set to end next year, attention has now turned to the 2022 George Washington Quarter. In three years, a new Reverse will have to be made. The question was if the Eagle Reverse of 1932 through 1998 would return. Based on the last Citizens Coinage Advisory Council (CCAC) meeting, the answer appears to be no. The October 15th meeting of CCAC was significant in that we saw designs for …
As part of a packed schedule during their October 15th meeting, the Citizens Coinage Advisory Council (CCAC) released candidate images of the 2020 Women’s Suffrage Centennial medal. The candidates, 18 in all, depict various images celebrating the 100th anniversary of women winning the right to vote in the United States. The 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution granted American women the right to vote. It was ratified on August 18, 1920. The bill for …
With 2020 coin designs fundamentally set, the Citizens Coinage Advisory Council, or CCAC, has now turned its attention to 2021. This past week the council met and have now released the 2021 American Liberty 24K gold coin and silver medal candidates. A whopping 68 candidate images were released on October 15, 2019 with a series of trimming down meetings to be held in 2020. A final design recommendation will come mid-to-late 2020 from the council …
The Citizens Coinage Advisory Committee (CCAC) has released images of the candidates for the 2020 USS Indianapolis Congressional Gold Medal. The images, 22 in all, are the finalist for the medal. It will likely be early 2020 before the final Obverse and Reverse designs are selected. The history of the Indianapolis is one of the more storied ones in naval history. In July 1945, it delivered the first nuclear bomb used in combat, Little Boy, …
The Citizens Coinage Advisory Committee (CCAC) has released images for the 2020 Massachusetts American Innovation Dollar. The candidate images were released as a part of the committee’s scheduled meeting being held today in Washington, D.C. The Massachusetts American Innovation Dollar is expected to be the second coin in the series released in 2020. In total, there will be four released: Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maryland, and South Carolina. You can learn more about the entire American Innovation series in …
The Citizens Coinage Advisory Committee (CCAC) has released images for the 2020 Connecticut American Innovation Dollar. The candidate images were released as a part of the committee’s scheduled meeting being held today in Washington, D.C. The Connecticut American Innovation Dollar is expected to be the first coin in the series released in 2020. In total, there will be four released: Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maryland, and South Carolina. You can learn more about the entire American Innovation series in …