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@SanctionII said:
I talked with Skyman this morning. He is doing well. His collecting efforts have been in the space memorabilia area.

Good news. Hope he posts some space memorabilia again.

You might have success with sending in for mechanical/label error. With things like a type 2 1913 nickel in a type 1 label, they fix that kind of thing for free.
For you, I guess it depends if they believe that it is MS over SP.

Weird, posts are missing. I guess the hall monitor finally got the teacher's attention.

I don’t recall ever seeing a “CIRC. Whatever” Mint bag.

@Bullsitter said:
Looks great, nice, frosted devices.
Quick shots.....marks are on capsule.
Didn't get one of the 12 pcs of the original "Space Flown" Golden Sacagaweas......

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This is the next best thing. I think they should have done an uncirculated and reverse proof version.

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@Manorcourtman said:
One thing is sure about this issue, and that’s if you wanted one, it was easy to obtain.

That was the goal of the mint. Only recently have they finally figured out how to achieve it.

Guessing there won't be anything like the V75 AGE again.

The Flowing Hair privy will probably be the only venue for something like that in the future. The Mint will get the big $ up front. Folks won't have a shot at such a score at normal issue price like the V75 AGE. Time will tell.

No, you're right. I think the new model for prizes will be what they did with the silver FH privies, i.e., randomly seeding them into the population.

The V75 AGE had a pop of 1945, and they let us kill each other for them. The world has changed, even from just a few years ago, with respect to the prevalence of bots, and there is no fair way to distribute that number without a lottery today, given how 8K regular gold FH coins disappeared in 3 minutes.

They solved for 8K, as we recently saw with the gold Sac, and even for 100K, as with the Army privies, by aggressively purging ineligible orders after the fact and adding them back into inventory. But they could never solve for 2K. It's too small a number for any of us to ever get if we had to compete with bots. So they would just be taking orders, and then canceling them the next day. Over and over, without most of us ever getting a shot without using an automated bot.

The silver FH privy had a pop of 1794. Pretty close to 1945, so it's a decent proxy for what they would do in the future for something with a similar mintage. Lottery rather than free for all.

230 gold privies is another animal altogether, and the Mint knows it. If they are going to do anything similar in the future, like doing 250 of anything next year for the Semiquincentennial, they are not going to give the value away, by lottery or otherwise.

They'll do it by auction, as with the 230 gold FH privies, so it's not worth talking about for most of us. In fact, after seeing what happened with after auction prices the last time, and how they have held since, prices at auction would likely be far higher than the last time around.

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@Coinscratch said:
I missed that thread and questioning why it looks like it’s gold? 65 CAC and Just shy of full hair.

Maybe because the obverse has a slight golden hue whereas the reverse is blast white.

Love it. Was I too low on the grade 😁

You did guess 65, right? And it is graded a 66, so yes .

Sorry I was on another page. Didn’t see the result was already in.
So is that a strike through on the thigh?

No strike through. Where?

I thought here but after looking at more I realize it's just part of the design.

Very nice. Not unattractive at all. Looks like small die cracks starting at the stars to the rim. I think you did fine. Zack.