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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;19Lyds, post: 948613, member: 15929&quot;]The Mint Director has a lot more power and authority than some of you folks are aware of as this position has been the defining factor in a lot of coin designs over the past 200 years. Refer to Roger Burdettes Coin World Article of June 28, 2010 on Ben Franklin where Rogers states: &quot;...Nellie Taylor Ross, Director of the Bureaus of the Mint.............. Once firmly in control at the Mint, Ross, with assistance from Mary O&#039;Reilly and then Leland Howard, considered how to get Frahnklin&#039;s portrait on a coin.&quot; In reading the article, Ross, the Mint Director, was persistent in getting Franklin on a US Coin. Granted the design is not what some would consider ground breaking but the entire point is that the Mint Director initiated (knowing the 25 years law) and actively persued the project which only requires the Secretary of the Treasury&#039;s approvel before going into final production.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>As for the CCAC and CFA, they don&#039;t submit designs, they only look at what the US Mint forwards to them which is why the CCAC and the CFS are complaining. It appears that they are tired of choosing the &quot;best piece of crap&quot; from the lot presented to them from the US Mint! In the June 14, 2010 Coin World, the front page article states: &quot;..the CCAC did not go as far as the Commission of Fine Arts went five days earlier when it declined to back <i><b>any</b></i> <i><b>of the US Mint&#039;s designs</b></i> for three of 10 sides of 2011 coins.&quot;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Correct me if I&#039;m wrong, but Moy, being Mint Director, is actually the boss of those mint engravers/scupltor&#039;s and must approve the designs submitted to the CFA and CCAC? The design&#039;s we are seeing, obviously, have met with Moy&#039;s approval <i>under his guidance</i>.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Moy spoke in 2008, at the Artistic Infusion Program Symposium about a &quot;Neo-Renaissance in Coin Design&quot;. Unfortunately, that had to do with educating the public by &quot;commemorating people, places and events&quot; instead of honoring the principles this country was founded on. He seems right on target with that as well as being hung up on satisfying bullion demand and attending release ceremonies. Of course, this all makes sense because prior to his appointment as Director, he was was a Special Assistant to the President (Bush) for Presidential Personnel at the White House. Before that he served on a wide variety of public appointments all related to Human Resources and people management.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>His 1979 degrees from the University of Wisconsin were in economics, international relations, and political science and IMO is nothing more than a political puppet/politician who knows NOTHING about coining, either in it&#039;s design or it&#039;s maunfacturing.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I would like to see him replaced by someone with a knowledge of the agency he represents so that perhaps he/she could pass his/her design ideas onto the mint engravers/sculptor&#039;s. I would like to see the 25 year coin design law actually used by a functioning Mint Director. I would really like to see someone who knows at least a little SOMETHING about coinage so that he/she could provide CONSTRUCTIVE GUIDANCE over coin design based upon the founding principles of the country instead of &quot;commemorating people, places and events&quot; since thats why we have commemoratives!</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Are the latest round of coin designs directly attributable to MOY? You bet they are and IMO, he really has to go.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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