Are Early Commemoratives considered semi-modern coins?

BigE

This is somewhat related to cionguy's post about the 39 nickel. Some people refer to Early commems. as "classic commems" . Do you think they are classic coins, modern or semi-modern? Or are they a mix (Lafayette and Isabella)?-------------------BigE

Yousri

Isn't "classic commems" is the "market acceptable" term

BillJones

I view the Booker T. Washington and the Washington-Carver pieces as modern coins. Booker T. Washington and George Washington Carver where great Americans who deserved to honored on commemorative coins. But the way that the coins were issued year after year for no good reason is the same garbage that ruined the commemorative coin market in the late 1930s. It was abuse, plain and simple.

The Iowa might be sort of the same situation, but at least the Iowa folks did not try to rip off collectors with their coin. They sold them when they could, actually did set aside a small group of them for sale many years later, but overall they did not treat collectors that way some other commemorative coin commissions did.