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Message:: [QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 183705, member: 112"]Easy, because Coin World uses pics of the designs that the states themselves used to have their citizens select their choice. These artist from outside the mint produce drawings of the designs and submit them to the states. The states publish pictures of the designs in local papers, on state web sites and let the citizens of the state choose their favorite from among them. So yes, the artists do make designs. But the rules for submission say that only a written description of the design can be submitted to the mint. The mint then has their own artists and engravers create a design for the coin based upon how they interpret that written description. Then other mint employees critique the design and change it yet again, often several times, to make sure that the coin will stike up well, wear well and will not wear out the coin dies too quickly. From the mint's web site - "Public Law 105-124, signed by President Clinton at the end of 1997, authorizes the Mint to honor the 50 states in the order they entered the Union or ratified the Constitution by producing five quarters each year from 1999 through 2008 with new reverse designs. The design process for each quarter is determined within each state by the Governor before design concepts are sent to the Mint, and then returned to the states for their final selection. Approval of the final design rests with the Treasury Secretary."[/QUOTE]