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Message:: [QUOTE="MetaCoin, post: 960335, member: 26699"]statequarter guy: no link that I know of but I'll try to compile and post the list this weekend from the Coin World article. I have two primary issues with the CCAC's effort. The first is that several members apparently believe that it's possible to 'force' good design by process. I disagree. Second, when two currently active 'committees' with input on coin design, the CFA and CCAC, apparently cannot produce the desired results, the answer is another committee? CCAC member Donald Scarinci, with whom I've had email conversations, believes a committee is the only way in today's government. I disagree (the French Mint recently hired a fashion designer as artistic advisor and coin designer, for example). Each of us has modern coin designs we like or don't like. That is partly my point. Design is subjective, and the Mint is after all a factory, a coin factory. But will the current very public effort by the CCAC encourage excellence from current U.S. Mint designers, or will it be counterproductive? Director Moy could perhaps make a difference; on that I agree with the CCAC. Look at how the great early 20th-century coin designs came about: strong personality, recognition of excellent designers outside the Mint, bully pulpit, and willingness to go outside of regular channels. The only thing the CCAC seems to be focusing on is the 'bully' part.[/QUOTE]