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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;baseball21, post: 2682420, member: 76863&quot;]Quantity isn&#039;t the problem.&nbsp; With only 2 that can come in 6 different versions each that&#039;s hardly an overwhelming number that should have any impact on the design for sake of time.&nbsp; They just simply have a committee making the selections who just make poor decisions.</p><p><br /></p><p>Case in point when discussing the ATB designs for 2019 and talking about American Memorial Park three of them said, &quot;Mike Moran suggested the American Memorial Park coin honor indigenous people of the region. The Guam coin, he said, presented a unique opportunity to show an underwater sea bed.</p><p><br /></p><p>Kareem Abdul-Jabbar noted that sea life such as turtles are iconic. (This prompted Chair Mary Lannin to mention that, historically, as popular as turtle designs might be, they’ve “always been shot down” in the Treasury secretary’s final decision-making.)</p><p><br /></p><p>Donald Scarinci, our senior committee member in years of service, envisioned a different approach. He said that “Congress commemorates military concepts well” and that “we as a nation portray ourselves through our coins in a military way, with commemoratives and medals.” He urged that the Mint’s artists instead celebrate wildlife and nature’s beauty, which were preserved and protected by the outcome of World War II, rather than war itself. “Stay away from the war stuff,” he said, “and let Congress legislate war things.” On a separate note, he observed that there’s a large body of stamps and coins that the America the Beautiful quarters shouldn’t duplicate, design-wise.&quot;</p><p>The full article can be found here:</p><p><a href="http://mintnewsblog.com/citizens-coinage-advisory-committee-discusses-industrial-religious-natural-and-military-themes-in-2019-america-the-beautiful-quarters/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://mintnewsblog.com/citizens-coinage-advisory-committee-discusses-industrial-religious-natural-and-military-themes-in-2019-america-the-beautiful-quarters/" rel="nofollow">http://mintnewsblog.com/citizens-coinage-advisory-committee-discusses-industrial-religious-natural-and-military-themes-in-2019-america-the-beautiful-quarters/</a></p><p><br /></p><p>But you literally have a park that is there as a war memorial and three of them want to focus on turtles, underwater life, and wildlife.&nbsp; I&#039;m sure that would be a big hit and go over very well if they get their way.....[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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