Liberty dollars

mach19

I see they have changed their tune on "legal tender" I still think they are

JJM

say what you will, but they are very high quality coins, I have a 5oz Proof , and its just a stellar coin , it has the pre-amble to the consitution micro lettered around the inner rim .....

mach19

I think they are well struck coins. I have the one, two, five, ten & twenty. They are proof like.

flaminio

Care to summarize the tune that was changed for us?

Zoins

If you get on their mailing list, it's a pretty good read IMO. One of the best stories I read was about people explaining silver coins to others by dropping them on the table and letting everyone hear the sound they made. So there are people trying to treat these like circulating coins, not just collector pieces in AirTites.

mach19

<< <i>Care to summarize the tune that was changed for us? >>



I believe They were implying these coins were legal tender, The feds stepped in. Need I say more

flaminio

<< <i>I believe They were implying these coins were legal tender, The feds stepped in. Need I say more >>

Only if you want to stop being cryptic. Gotta link?

mach19

Sorry my friend, There was one on a earlier thread by one of the good guy's that left the forum. Let me take a look. Hold on

edix2001

The feds stepped in ... as in the U.S. Mint, who issued a press release saying that they couldn't use the word "dollar" or the "dollar symbol" on their silver pieces. Bernard von NotHaus, previously of the Royal Hawaiian and NORFED founder, was ready to retire his position by that time anyway, so they gave in instead of fighting and have taken all the politics (the NORFED aspect) out of their product.

As an aside -- I am looking for a specimen of the prototype design that von NotHaus submitted to the Treasury Dept. in 1998 for consideration in creating the then-coming new dollar coin -- what turned out to be the Sacagawea. If anyone has a lead on something like that, please let me know.