Commission Of Fine Arts Gets First Look At 2017 American Eagle Palladium Coin Mockups

CoinWorld - Mock-up renderings of the mandated designs for a 2017 American Eagle $25 palladium bullion coin were reviewed March 16 by the Commission of Fine Arts.



The initial review of the designs was to be undertaken March 15 by the Citizens Coinage Advisory Committee, but that session was moved to March 21 because of the snowstorm that hit Washington, D.C., on March 14.

The enabling legislation is the American Eagle Palladium Bullion Coin Act of 2010, Public Law 111-303.

The general designs have been known since before passage of the legislation; the act specifies that the obverse will replicate sculptor Adolph A. Weinman's Winged Liberty Head dime design, and the reverse, an eagle he designed in 1906 for the the reverse of an American Institute of Architects gold medal first awarded in 1907.

In the Mint's interpretation of the obverse design, the date, 2017, appears with the 17 larger than the 20, and also slightly higher. Weinman's intertwined designer initials, AW, appear in the right obverse field, as on the dime.

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