APE Proofs

I never noticed this until I spent some free time the other day looking through the red book at work...

I know it's a collector's version of a bullion coin, but did you guys ever notice the annual changes to the APE proofs? I'm not sure who designs them (or if it's a new person every year) but I believe that they are doing a beautiful job in capturing very symbolic scenes.

For comparison, the silver Britannia depicts beautiful (mostly) annual design changes. Thus, the series is a blast for me to collect and ponder at the artist's work. I feel that the APE are just as, if not more, spectacular than these coins.

I feel most of our modern coins pretty much suck (for a lack of a better word); however, the APE seems to have a well thought out design every single year. Perhaps if we included designs like these on our circulating coins then they would become tolerable / more collectible.

 

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I agree with you sans the 2009: http://platinumeagleguide.com/2009-platinum-eagle/

TC

 

Great site TC. Thanks for sharing

 

Spider: The 2010 design was just released:

http://mintnewsblog.blogspot.com/2010/07/2010-platinum-eagle-design-revealed.html

TC

 

John M. Mercanti designed the obverse and Thomas D. Rogers Sr. designed the reverse.

 

Thanks TC. However, I am a little bit disappointed with this year's design. Hopefully it will look much better than the depiction on the web page.

 

Thanks Numis. I did some research on the designs awhile ago to see if any of the designers designed multiple coins for the series.