04 Nov 2011

CCAC Review and Recommendations for Star Spangled Banner Commemorative Coins

In 2012, a United States Mint will emanate commemorative coins to symbol a bicentennial of a essay of a Star Spangled Banner. The module will embody $5 bullion coins with a limit mintage of 100,000 and china dollars with a limit mintage of 500,000. Under a sanctioning legislation, a designs for a coins “shall be emblematic of a War of 1812 and quite a Battle for Baltimore that shaped a basement for a Star-Spangled Banner.”

Designs for a bullion and china commemorative coins will be comparison by a Secretary of a Treasury following conference with a Maryland War of 1812 Bicentennial Commission, a Commission of Fine Arts (CFA), and examination by a Citizens Coinage Advisory Committee (CCAC).

The recommendations of a CFA can be found in this article. The CCAC reviewed a pattern possibilities supposing by a United States Mint during a assembly hold on Jul 26, 2011. This essay appears today, due to scheduling and a check in receiving information.

The United States Mint supposing a Citizens Coinage Advisory Committee with with 10 obverse and 8 retreat pattern possibilities for a $5 bullion coin, and 6 obverse and 9 retreat pattern possibilities for a china dollar. With a goal of recommending obverse and retreat designs that would enrich any other and fit a relations sizes of any coin, a CCAC reviewed all of a obverse and retreat pattern possibilities together, and identified endorsed designs for any coin. This resulted in situations where a pattern claimant that a US Mint had supposing for a bullion china was endorsed by a CCAC for a china coin, and clamp versa.

Recommendations of a Committee for a Star Spangled Banner $5 Gold Coin are shown above. The obverse depicts a naval Battle stage from a War of 1812 with an American boat appearing in a forehead and a shop-worn and journey British boat in a background. The retreat facilities American flags wtih 15 and 50 stars decorated together with an marker “Long May It Wave”.

The Committee’s recommendations for a obverse and retreat designs of a 2012 Star Spangled Banner Silver Dollar are shown above. The obverse depicts Liberty fluttering an American dwindle with an picture of Fort McHenry in a background. The retreat depicts an American dwindle with 50 stars, rendered in a complicated fashion. Members of a Committee felt that a obverse and retreat pattern pairing “would communicate a summary about a continuation of a Republic and a of a dwindle from a time of a War of 1812 to a present.”

The finish line-up of pattern possibilities supposing by a United States Mint seem below.

$5 Gold Obverse Design Candidates