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Citizens Coinage Advisory Committee 801 Ninth Street, NW, Washington, DC 20220 C CAC April 29, 2010 The Honorable Timothy Geithner Secretary of the Treasury Department of the Treasury 1500 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, D.C. 20220 Dear Secretary Geithner: A public meeting of the Citizens Coinage Advisory Committee (Committee) was held on April 27, 2010, at the Sheraton Society Hill Hotel in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The Committee reviewed proposed candidate designs for the reverse of the 2011 Native American $1 Coin. The Committee showed strong support for design 2011-NA-06, which represents the initiation of the first formal written peace alliance between the Wampanoag tribe and the European settlers. It depicts the hands of each party’s respective leaders, Massasoit and Governor John Carver as they pass the pipe between each other during the peace pipe ceremony. Members of the Committee who favored the design considered the simplicity of the image of two hands and a peace pipe as the most effective way to depict the design theme, "Supreme Sachem Ousamequin, Massasoit of the Great Wampanoag Nation creates alliance with settles at Plymouth Bay (1621)." They also believe that it will render itself very well on the $1 coin. Sincerely, Gary B. Marks Chair