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:
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:
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:
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.
