America the Beautiful Quarters kick off in 2010. During the next 11 years and at a rate of 5 per year, the reverse or tails side of each quarter will feature a design emblematic of a national park or site in each state, the District of Columbia and U.S. territories.

[Read about the US Mint's announcement of the America the Beautiful Quarters Program.]

Nearly twenty art renderings were completed some months back as part of the process to select a final quarter-dollar design per location for next year.

Referred to as "candidate designs," these have also been submitted to the United States Commission of Fine Arts (CFA) and the Citizens Coinage Advisory Committee (CCAC) for review.

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Consider replacing George Washington’s portrait on U.S. quarters with an image of Theodore Roosevelt, members of the Citizens Coinage Advisory Committee unanimously recommended in their Jan. 27 meeting, according to Numismatic News.

Information about the National Park Quarters has been minimal, as should be expected for much of 2009 given the United States Mint will not begin issuing the quarters until 2010.

However, the first five quarter designs will be completed this year in preparation for their release next year. And the CCAC, which advises the Secretary of the Treasury on designs for coinage, has already made their first recommendation for the series.

Read the full article: Roosevelt to replace Washington on Quarters? on National Park Quarters.

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The Citizens Coinage Advisory Committee (CCAC) has their next public meeting March 13, 2008. A main responsibility for the CCAC is to review coin designs. It’s for this purpose they will next meet.

The key meeting agendas are reviewing coin designs for the new:

• Abraham Lincoln one-cent coins
• Louis Braille Bicentennial-Braille Literacy commemorative coin
• and the redesign of the Native American $1 coins

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The Citizens Coinage Advisory Committee (CCAC) has their next public meeting Jan. 15. CCAC’s main responsibility is to review themes and design proposals for circulating coinage, commemorative coins, bullion coinage, Congressional Gold Medals and other medals.

It’s for this purpose they’ll next meet. According to the announcement, their main objectives in the meeting will be to:

• Review design candidates for the reverse (tails) of the fourth one-cent circulating coin in the 2009 Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial One-Cent Coin series

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The Citizens Coinage Advisory Committee (CCAC) was created to help in the recommendation and selection of new United States Minted coins and medals.

For anyone who loves art, designing, collecting or history, becoming a member of the CCAC could be a dream come true. And for two people, that dream could turn into reality as soon as February of 2008.

What does the CCAC do? Whether it’s:

• Circulating coins, like the 2008 state quarter designs recently announced
• Commemorative collector coinage, like the 2008 American Bald Eagle coins
• Or medals - even Congressional Gold Medals, like this year’s medals for the Dalai Lama

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Citizens Coinage Advisory Committee - who are they and what do they do?

Since the government is responsible for minting coins, you could suspect it’s more than one or two people who are responsible for designing them.

But wait, we’re talking about the government… Obviously, we need to be thinking about committees when it comes to decision making!

There are, in fact, many layers in getting a new coin design out the door. And although there’s some jest when it comes to talking about the government, the design of coinage - whether it’s good or bad - is no simple thing.

An interesting party in one phase of a coin’s design is the Citizens Coinage Advisory Committee, or CCAC for short.

Unless you read Public Law or have been in the numismatic world and have followed the development path of a new coin, the CCAC is likely foreign to you.

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