Thomas "Tom" J. Uram has recently been appointed by Secretary of the Treasury Steven Mnuchin to succeed Mary N. Lannin as chair of the Citizens Coinage Advisory Committee(CCAC) for a term of one year. Lannin will continue to serve as an active member of the CCAC. Uram has been a committee member of the CCAC since 2012 and was reappointed again bySpeaker of the House Paul Ryan. In addition to being appointed as the new chair of the CCAC, he holds active roles as a governor of the American Numismatic Association (ANA) andpresident of the Pennsylvania Association of Numismatists.

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Citizens Coinage Advisory Committee member Thomas Uram (foreground) and U.S. Treasurer Jovita Carranza at a June 2017 CCAC meeting at Mint headquarters in Washington. (CCACmembers Erik Jansen and Jeanne Stevens-Sollman in the background.) (Photo by Dennis Tucker.)

Tom Uram: It's timely because I had the most influence on the selection of the Apollo 11 design. I was one of the three representatives from the CCAC who met with three otherrepresentatives from the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts. This was a unique selection since it was based on competition. I really felt the footprint was going to be the best designfor all planchet sizes. It's a super commemorative with the helmet on the obverse then the footprint on the reverse. We have the whole astronaut, head to toe.

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