![]() Members of the Citizens’ Coinage Advisory Committee, another advisory panel that reviews coin and medal designs, will also review the designs, on March 1. ![]() The commission’s recommendations now go to Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, who will have the final word on the designs. The obverse would carry the wording always remember 2001 - 2011.Ĭommission Vice Chair Pamela Nelson said the recommendations are in keeping with the panel’s concern for simple designs on the nation’s coins and medals and in part a belief that the symbolism of the two shafts would be lost on many people. The commission urged two design changes to the Mint’s proposed obverse, requesting that the circle be removed from around the flame and that two symbolic shafts of light behind the woman’s hands be removed. Under the eagle would be a quote from the Roman poet Virgil: no day shall erase you from the memory of time. The selected reverse shows an eagle with wings outstretched against a shimmering waterfall. For the obverse, the commission selected a design showing Liberty as a young woman with a garland in her hair and a flame of hope in her hands.
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