I’m clueless, what’s this emergency issue silver eagle thing about?
Mr_Spud
Posts: 6,000 ✭✭✭✭✭
What emergency could a silver American eagle help with? Why are they called emergency issue? Is bullion somehow preventing some catastrophe?
Mr_Spud
1
Comments
Just marketing. They used other mints to satisfy demand. There are no mintmarks, but the companies who buy the monster boxes figured out what Mint they came from and slabbed them as "emergency issue" San Francisco Mint or Philadelphia Mint.
I see. So not really any emergency and the world wasn’t saved by SAE’s
Mr_Spud
Correct....and the 'detail' is more a collector hype than anything significant. If not for the label, it would be indistinguishable from others. Cheers, RickO
It was more a Mint emergency than a Mint customer emergency.
man made marketing ploy which makes me say again: "buy the coin and not the label"
Kennedys are my quest...
Hype.
The most ridiculous label ever printed.
Dead Cat Waltz Exonumia
"Coin collecting for outcasts..."
I don't know. I still vote for "first strike". In this case, there is actually a Mint difference that you need the label to identify. First strike is nothing but a submission deadline to the TPGS
If the Mint would have restricted ALL the coining of ASE's to Philadelphia because of COVID concerns, then it would have become what it is now hyped to be.
All of the coins could have qualified, instead of the present mumbo Jumbo.
1965 all over again.
Pete
I was trying to think of an actual emergency that ASEs could have really helped with and the best imaginary scenario I could come up with was that the mint used the profits they made from them to fund the development of the COVID vaccine.
Imagine that - Every dollar you spend on mint bullion provides 1/2 a dollar to save the world 🌎
I couldn’t come with any other imaginary scenario where SAEs would truly be Emergency issues, can you?
Mr_Spud
Well, I for one thinks the mint should get their act together and do a national covid epidemic comm. silver Half dollar in 22. I know but stranger things have come to be. Peace Roy
BST: endeavor1967, synchr, kliao, Outhaul, Donttellthewife, U1Chicago, ajaan, mCarney1173, SurfinHi, MWallace, Sandman70gt, mustanggt, Pittstate03, Lazybones, Walkerguy21D, coinandcurrency242 , thebigeng, Collectorcoins, JimTyler, USMarine6, Elkevvo, Coll3ctor, Yorkshireman, CUKevin, ranshdow, CoinHunter4, bennybravo, Centsearcher, braddick, Windycity, ZoidMeister, mirabela, JJM, RichURich, Bullsitter, jmski52, LukeMarshall, coinsarefun, MichaelDixon, NickPatton, ProfLiz, Twobitcollector,Jesbroken oih82w8, DCW
Lately it seems most everything is an emergency.......or a crisis. Why not a Silver Eagle emergency? Roll with it boys and girls.
A field day for HSN.
One of those middle of the night coin shows had two eagles for sale last night for 3 easy payments of $113 per pop. One of the eagles was the "rare" emergency eagle. Pass.
Many successful BST transactions with dozens of board members, references on request.
Perception is reality. There is a huge market for these and many who are compelled to buy them to complete their collections.
Kind of like the used car dealers TV adverts spouting "Automotive Emergency".
I just think the mint engravers should have cut in a P or an S into the die as appropriate to make this more legitimate! That would have been something special.