Tag: Numismatic
U.S. Celebrates Two Wins at Coin of the Year Awards
For the first time in ten years the United States won top honors with the Baseball Hall of Fame clad half dollar coin as the Krause Coin of the Year for coins dated 2014. The United States won two awards at the first round of the 2016 Coin of the Year Awards, which were held […]
December 21, 2015
Lawmakers Considering Bill to Mint Apollo 11 Commemorative Coin
It is highly probable that the U.S. Mint will issue commemorative coins to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11 in 2019. If so, Congress most probably will require a special joint committee for design review as they did for the World War 1 commemorative scheduled for 2018. The World War 1 coin is the […]
November 16, 2015
US Mint Presentation To Gary Marks
A small ceremony was held at the United States Mint Headquarters in Washington DC on Thursday, October 8, 2015 to honor Gary Marks for his two terms of service on the Citizens Coinage Advisory Committee (CCAC). Marks served as a public member of the CCAC, appointed by the Secretary of the Treasury twice, from 2008 […]
October 14, 2015
Tribute to Gary Marks: “It’s All about the Art”
On October 8, 2015, after the vote on the 2016 Lions Club Commemorative coin, I grabbed Gary Marks by the hand. I looked him in the eye and thanked him for his service on the Citizens Coinage Advisory Committee (CCAC) on behalf of all Americans who may never know about the paradigm shift that occurred […]
October 12, 2015
President Obama Nominates New Mint Director–Finally
After waiting more than two years since the last Mint Director officially resigned, the White House announced last week that Matthew Rhett Jeppson would be nominated as Director of the Mint. Jeppson currently serves as the Principal Deputy Director of the U.S. Mint. Once sworn in, he will become the 39th Director of the U.S. […]
July 20, 2015
Silver Center Cent: The First and Most Important U.S. Coin?
The 1792 Silver Center Cent was the first coin officially struck at the First United States Mint. It also remains one of most significant in U.S. history, despite not being as well-known as other rare coins. The Coinage Act of 1792 (also known as the Mint Act) established the United States Mint and set forth […]
May 12, 2015
Royal Mint Unveils New Queen Elizabeth II Effigy
Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II continues to age gracefully both in life and in coin. The Royal Mint recently unveiled the fifth effigy of the monarch, who has spent more than 63 years on the throne. The new design will be used on British coinage as well as on colonial and Commonwealth nation’s coinage around the […]
March 30, 2015
Maria Carmela Colaneri Received the Krause Lifetime Achievement
Maria Carmela Colaneri of Italy’s Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato received the Krause Lifetime Achievement Award in Coin Design at the World Mint Director’s Conference held in Berlin on January 31. She accepted the award in Italian to great applause. Maria Carmela Colaneri is best known as the designer of the Krause Coin of the […]
February 17, 2015
Susan Gamble, Award-Winning, Coin Designer Passed Away
Susan Gamble, an artist for the United States Mint, passed away in January at the age of 57-years-old. Her legacy to the United States of America is her art and through that art she will be remembered forever. In 2007 Susan Gamble designed the reverse of the Jamestown 400th anniversary silver dollar. This was the […]
February 2, 2015
Austria Sweeps Krause Coin of the Year 2013
Austria took top honors winning the Krause Coin of the Year for coins dates 2013 with its 50 euro gold coin, KM-3218, depicting Gustav Klimt’s, “The Expectation.” It is the second coin in Austria’s five year series celebrating the painter’s work. [easingslider id=”4591″] It was a big year for the Austrian Mint, having taken the […]
December 16, 2014