Goal: To create a coin that reflects current day pop culture.

Role: Investigator and Artist

Audience: The U.S. Mint

Situation: Imagine you are asked by the U.S. Mint to design the newest coin related to pop culture. They give you the definition of pop culture as “things that are popular in society at a given time.” They need your expertise to help them design a coin for the year 2025.

Product: A coin design celebrating pop culture.

Task: Create a coin design.

Goal: To create a coin that reflects pop culture from a specific decade in the past 500 years.

Role: Historian and Artist

Audience: The U.S. Mint

Situation: Imagine the U.S. Mint is planning to make a pop culture coin to represent each decade for the past 500 years (1520s–2020s). They have asked you to research a specific decade and create a coin to represent that era. They define pop culture as “things that are popular in society at a given time.”

Product: A coin design celebrating the pop culture of one of the decades from the past 500 years.

Task: Create a coin design.

Goal: To create a coin that reflects pop culture.

Role: Historian and Artist

Audience: The U.S. Mint

Situation:Imagine the U.S. Mint is planning to make a pop culture coin to represent each decade for the past 500 years (1520s-2020s). They have asked you to research a specific decade (10 year period) from the past and create a pop culture coin to represent that era. They give you the definition of pop culture as “things that are popular in society at a given time.”

Product: A coin design celebrating the pop culture of one of the decades from the past 500 years.

Task: Create a coin design.