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Citizens Coinage Advisory Committee Public Meeting Wednesday, June 16, 2015 United States Mint 801 9th Street N. W. Washington DC 20220 In attendance: Michael Bugeja (telephonically) Robert Hoge Erik Jansen Mary Lannin (Chair) Gary Marks Donald Scarinci Jeanne Stevens-Sollman Thomas Uram Herman Viola Heidi Wastweet 1. Chairperson Lannin opened meeting at 9:30 am. 2. Minutes and letters of March 9 and March 10, 2015 unanimously approved. 3. April Stafford of the United States Mint presented the candidate designs in order of voting for the 2016 National Park Service American Commemorative Coin Program. Contributing to the discussion was Donald Ledbetter, the Partnership Coordinator with the Centennial Office. 4. Committee members discussed designs for the three coins commemorative series. After each member of the Committee had commented, they rated the designs by assigning 0, 1, 2 or 3 points to each, with higher points reflecting more favorable evaluations. With ten (10) members voting, the maximum possible score was thirty (30). By Committee rule, a majority of the maximum possible point total (i.e. 16) was required for the Committee’s recommendation. The Committee’s scores for the designs of the 2016 National Park Service 100th Anniversary Commemorative Coin Program were as follows, reflecting both the voting process for the gold and clad coins, and the motion made regarding the silver coin. $5 Gold Obverse Designs NPS-G-O-01 0 NPS-G-O-02 3 NPS-G-O-03 15 NPS-G-O-04 2 NPS-G-O-05 3 NPS-G-O-06 0 NPS-G-O-07 0 NPS-G-O-08 5 NPS-G-O-09 0 NPS-G-O-10 22 (recommended design) NPS-G-O-11 18 NPS-G-O-12 2 NPS-G-O-13 2 NPS-G-O-14 5 NPS-G-O-15 1 NPS-G-O-16 1 NPS-G-O-17 7 $5 Gold Reverse Designs: NPS-G-R-01 2 NPS-G-R-02 6 NPS-G-R-03 27 (recommended design) NPS-G-R-04 6 NPS-G-R-05 6 NPS-G-R-06 5 NPS-G-R-07 4 NPS-G-R-08 2 NPS-G-R-09 2 NPS-G-R-09-A 5 NPS-G-R-09-B 2 NPS-G-R-10 1 $1 Silver Obverse and Reverse In the case of the $1 Silver Obverse and Reverse, the Committee discussed the designs presented and made an interesting pairing. The MOTION made by Gary Marks and SECONDED by Michael Bugeja suggested pairing two reverses. The Committee voted 6-4 to choose REVERSE design NPS-S-R-02 as the OBVERSE, and voted for REVERSE NSP-S-R-05 for the REVERSE. This inspired combination featured a Latino Folklorico dancer whose swirling skirts matched the chosen reverse comprised of a trumpet, an upright bass headstock and a banjo, typical of instruments used for traditional jazz music heard in the New Orleans Jazz National Park. Half-Dollar Clad A MOTION was made by Mr. Marks and SECONDED by Mr. Jansen that NPS-S-O-02 be added to the list of obverse designs being considered for the half-dollar clad coin obverse. The motion was APPROVED. Half-dollar Clad Coin Obverse: NPS-C-O-01 21 NPS-C-O-02 1 NPS-C-O-03 3 NPS-C-O-03-A 0 NPS-C-O-04 4 NPS-C-O-05 2 NPS-C-O-06 0 NPS-C-O-08 4 NPS-C-O-09 4 NPS-C-O-10 5 NPS-S-O-02 22 (recommended design) Half-dollar Clad Coin Reverse NPS-C-R-01 1 NPS-C-R-02 1 NPS-C-R-03 20 (recommended design) NPS-C-R-04 12 NPS-C-R-05 3 NPS-C-R-06 1 NPS-C-R-07 5 NPS-C-R-08 18 NPS-C-R-09 4 NPS-C-R-9A 3 NPS-C-R-10 0 NPS-C-R-11 2 NPS-C-R-11A 1 A MOTION was made by Mr. Uram and SECONDED by Mr. Marks that the stick figures on the chosen reverse, NPS-C-R-03 be removed. The motion was APPROVED. 5. April Stafford of the United States Mint reviewed and discussed candidate designs for the Foot Soldiers of the 1965 Selma to Montgomery Voting Rights March Congressional Gold Medal. Dr. Barbara Tagger, site manager from the Selma to Montgomery National Historic Trail National Park Service, attended as a guest. The scores for the designs are as follows: Foot Soldiers of Selma Obverse FSSM-CGM-O-01 4 FSSM-CGM-O-02 10 FSSM-CGM-O-02-A 10 FSSM-CGM-O-03 0 FSSM-CGM-O-03-A 0 FSSM-CGM-O-04 6 FSSM-CGM-O-05 7 FSSM-CGM-O-06 11 FSSM-CGM-O-06-A 28 (recommended design) FSSM-CGM-O-07 4 FSSM-CGM-O-08 4 FSSM-CGM-O-09 4 FSSM-CGM-O-10 2 Foot Soldiers of Selma Reverse FSSM-CGM-R-01 2 FSSM-CGM-R-02 4 FSSM-CGM-R-02-A 8 FSSM-CGM-R-03 6 FSSM-CGM-R-04 8 FSSM-CGM-R-05 30 (recommended design) FSSM-CGM-R-06 0 After voting was completed, a MOTION was made by Mr. Marks and SECONDED by Ms. Lannin that the ring be removed encircling the chosen obverse FSSM-CGM-O-6-A and people added on either side bleeding out to the edge. The motion was unanimously APPROVED. The designs chosen were the ones favored by the stakeholder. 6. April Stafford of the United States Mint reviewed and discussed candidate designs for the 65th Infantry Regiment “Borinqueneers” Congressional Gold Medal. The congressionally-appointed liaisons, Mr. Javier Gonzalez Morales and Mr. Sam Rodriguez attended as guests. It was noted that the stakeholders favored BOR-O-06 and BOR-R-05. The scores for the designs were as follows: Borinqueneers Obverse BOR-O-01 5 BOR-O-04 6 BOR-O-05 6 BOR-O-06 30 (recommended design) BOR-O-06-A 11 BOR-O-07 6 BOR-O-08 1 BOR-O-09 1 BOR-O-10 3 BOR-O-11 13 BOR-O-12 8 Borinqueneers Reverse BOR-R-01 3 BOR-R-02 1 BOR-R-03 5 BOR-R-04 4 BOR-R-05 28 (recommended design) BOR-R-06 4 BOR-R-07 7 BOR-R-08 4 BOR-R-09 4 BOR-R-10 3 BOR-R-11 4 BOR-R-12 1 BOR-R-12-A 1 BOR-R-13 1 BOR-R-14 4 After additional telephonic comments from members and relatives of Borinqueneers in Chicago and Miami, the votes were read aloud, noting that BOR-O-06 received a perfect score of 30 and that BOR-R-05 received 28. The meeting was adjourned at 3:30 pm. Citizens Coinage Advisory Committee Public Meeting Wednesday, June 17, 2015 United States Mint 801 9th Street N. W. Washington DC 20220 In attendance: Michael Bugeja (telephonically) Robert Hoge Erik Jansen Mary Lannin (Chair) Gary Marks Jeanne Stevens-Sollman Thomas Uram Herman Viola Heidi Wastweet 1. Chairperson Lannin opened the meeting at 9:30 am. 2. April Stafford from the United States Mint reviewed and discussed the candidate designs for the Nancy Reagan First Spouse Gold Coin and Medal Program. She indicated that this would be only the second time in recent history that a living person would be depicted on a coin. It was noted by Ms. Stafford that the Reagan Foundation wanted “Just Say No” to be her legacy for the reverse, and that the Mint artists had added two additional reverses from which to choose in the portfolio, and that these were rough ideas that would be further refined after the Committee discussion. Melissa Giller, Chief Marketing Officer of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation, participated in the meeting via telephone, and indicated that Mrs. Reagan’s choice for the obverse is FS-NR-O-01. 3. After beginning discussion of the obverses and reverses, a MOTION was made by Ms. Wastweet and SECONDED by Mr. Uram that we forego our traditional voting system and adopt FS-NR-O-01 as the obverse and ask the Mint artists to rework the Reagan Foundation’s preferred reverses FS-NR-R-08 and FS-NR-R-09. The motion was APPROVED. 4. Mr. Bugeja made a MOTION, seconded by Ms. Lannin, for the reverse designs FS-NR-R04 and FS-NR-R-05 be reworked and be included in a future meeting. The motion was APPROVED 8 – 1. 5. April Stafford of the U S Mint introduced the artwork for the 2016 Special 100th Anniversary coins. Additional Mint sales and marketing personnel Jack Zebin, Jason Laure and Nannette Evans attended. The iconic coins are the Adolph Weinman-designed “Mercury” dime, weighing one-tenth of an ounce in 2016; the Herman MacNeil-designed Standing Liberty, weighing one-quarter ounce in 2016; and the Adolph Weinman-designed Walking Liberty, weighing one-half ounce in 2016. Each of these coins will be struck in 24-karat gold, and the dies will be digitally scanned from original assets, which could include plasters, galvanos and original tooling. The design modifications will include changing the dates from 1916 to 2016, adding necessary inscriptions to identify metal content, fineness and weight. A discussion among Committee members followed, including hand-sculpting additional lettering with thoughts from Ms. Wastweet and Ms. Stevens-Sollman; and the placing of mint marks brought up by Mr. Bugeja and further refined by Mr. Hoge. 6. A telephonic meeting is to be announced to vote on the Nancy Reagan First Spouse amended designs. 7. The next meeting is schooled for Thursday, October 8, 2015 at U S Mint headquarters. 8. The meeting was adjourned at 10:45 am.
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