U.S Mint is calling for artist to design the Apollo 11 50th Anniversary coin

Why can't they just make silver dollars and half dollars?

The moon landing skeptics are going to have a good laugh.

 

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For the time in which they did it it was a far more historic thing the morons in Congress can understand.
And yes when has the Congress ever done good.
Just not doing anything terrible is a major victory.

 

Wow, did you design that? That's pretty good artwork and well thought out design placements. Maybe include that concave/convex shape and high relief since that's what I think is required.

 

No but a member of CoinTalk @dcarr did:

http://www.dc-coin.com/2001apolloastronautgoldendollarprototypebrassprooflike81grams-1.aspx

 

I read that the Secretary (of the Treasury?) chooses the winning design. But, perhaps only qualified designs get shown to the Secretary? And, I'm not sure either what Congress was thinking with a concave obverse design. I'm guessing they plan to make the convex reverse design as the moon, somewhat similar to the Niue Island coin shown below (pic from the 'net).

Anyway, I finished my design but to my own liking... and I designed both sides lol, but I think I'll submit both sides out of protest.

I'd post my design, but I'm not sure if publicizing it will disqualify me in some way! There are nearly 3,000 words of official rules, but there are still so many unknowns... and unknown unknowns?

 

Just send what they want, you never know if it will get picked or not. Unless you think you have no chance symbolic protests are always a waste of time

 

I'm going to send what they want, plus what I want it to be since it's made anyway.

I'd post a pic of it, but I'm not sure if publicizing it will disqualify me somehow!

 

Just be careful you don't disqualify yourself from some stipulation. For people that can actually draw these chances don't come around very often

 

Let's hope they don't put a head band of huge stars on the helmet, if design has a spacesuit in it.

 

I sent them an email at the address they provided on the contests page.

I hope they respond and answer all of my questions - I'll post what they say.

 

Good luck with your submission. I'm cautiously optimistic about this issue with the design contest.

 

The disqualification language is so broad... looking at rule #2, if I submit both sides of the design, maybe it will disqualify me. Unless I submit it as an "honorable mention", since that would deem it as not part of the official submission. It also technically means that if I submit just one work of art, then I can be disqualified since 3-5 original and distinct works of art are required...


III. Disqualification
The United States Mint reserves the right to disqualify, at any time, artists and their entries, if —

1. the entrant engages or has been found to have engaged in criminal, infamous, dishonest or notoriously disgraceful conduct, or any other conduct prejudicial to the United States Government;
2. the entry or entrant violates or does not fully comply with these Official Rules;
3. the United States Mint determines that submitted material is not original and/or infringes the rights of a third party; or
4. the entrant is determined to be ineligible by the United States Mint in its sole discretion.

Disqualification could, among other things, result in cancellation of, and/or the requirement that the entrant reimburse the United States Mint for, any payment to which such an entrant might otherwise have been or might become entitled.

 

I COMPLETELY agree. This was a pretty major step for humanity. Why not circulate something? Why not commems AND a circulating coin? I wonder how big of a deal it will end up being. Or will it simply ignite the moon landing conspiracies again?

As with everything in the murky mist of the future, we'll see...

 

The sad thing is that SpaceX might be sending men around the moon for $90 million Dollars total, in 2019, while NASA is planning to do the same around the year 2022 for an eye watering $1.5 Billion Dollars, as Congress won't fund NASA unless they use inneficient rockets and methods (due to political self-interest from Senators looking to benefit their own states with pork spending).

The era of government doing these things is coming to an end. Private Enterprise does it much cheaper. I remember when NASA was relying on Boeing exclusively for their rockets to launch satellites into space, it cost $600 Million per launch because political self-interest from Senators requiring rocket parts to be built in multiple states and shipped to Florida (very inefficient and expensive.)

SpaceX are doing the same missions today for only $45 million dollars, and Blue Origin will soon be doing it too for around the same price.

 

Remember right now you are not submitting designs for the coin. You are just submitting examples of your work (Any work). From those they will select 20 persons and THEN those 20 will submit designs for the coin. And it will just be for the concave reverse side. They have already stipulated what the convex side will be.

 

But I can simply submit a future "fantasy" 2019 coin design, right?

 

As long as it is an original work of yours sure.

 

OK, I got a response back from the US Mint regarding whether or not you can publicize your work - don't do it!

"In the Official Rules, for Phase One of the competition, the United States Mint requires entrants uploading images representative of their portfolio to “redact [their] name and any other personally identifying information from the image and the filename.” This is done in order to keep Phase One submissions anonymous so that entrants are judged not on their name recognition or reputation, but on the artistic merit of their application portfolio. While we don’t prohibit against sharing the work contained in your application portfolio publicly, combining that share with an announcement of your participation in the competition, including personally identifying information, would clearly defeat that anonymity. The United States Mint wishes to keep the focus on a portfolio’s artistic merit, not on an artist’s participation in the competition.​

If you are invited to participate in Phase Two of the competition, Public Law 114-282 requires anonymity in the design review process, which means you will be prohibited from publicly sharing your design entry along with personally identifying information. Additionally, sharing your design publicly may violate the required Rights Transfer Agreement that you would sign if invited."​

 

I just got a response today and I didn't make it to the next round

Maybe some of you guys on here made it (?).

I think that my design was not symbolic enough or otherwise good enough. Oh well...

 

Send pics of your design! Im not over 18 so I couldnt participate