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What's next....The Presidential pets gold proof coins???
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The high relief $50 gold coins will be sold only as part of a set that includes the 9 silver dollars surrounding the gold coin in the center in elliptical orbits as part of a presentation case for each of the coins. All presentation cases would bear a plaque with inscriptions that include the names and dates of the spacecraft missions on which astronauts lost their lives over the course of the space program.
Bronze medals duplicating the designs of the gold coins will also be sold.
And there are plenty of names for a 19th Century program also.
I was pleased when the Statehood quarters came along, and relieved the long stagnation in coin designs that had lasted my whole lifetime.
Now it appears we're oversaturated with new themes, and while themes make coins more collectible, an overabundance of them can bog things down, much as appparently happened with the classic commemorative halves by the 1950s.
What frightens me is that coins will become like stamps, where there are simply too many commemoratives and themes for a collector to keep up with, and folks will lose interest and the market will die. Or slump, anyway.
As someone who doesn't do much with moderns, it would be easy for me to say, "who cares if that market gets oversaturated and tanks", but that would be folly, of course.
I hope the Mint cools it a bit. I think the themes are basically a good thing, but y'know what they say about too much of a good thing.
for the record, I think a little 1/10 oz gold coin featuring presidental pets would be a very good seller....
they could probably even do 1/20th to make it more public-friendly !!!!!
Wow, just think of all the possibilities!!!!
Well, just Love coins, period.
How about a coin series commemorating popular/historical US coins? maybe even made from the same metal as the original
<< <i>In 2008 The Mint will produce a series of high relief Proof only .9999 fine $50 1oz gold coins, one for each planet in the solar system comemorating the NASA's space program 50th year, with a maximum mintage of 50,000 and a Proof only $1 1oz silver coins with a maximum mintage of 300,000 individual coins being offered. No Uncirculated versions of the coins would be produced, a first for the commemorative coin program.
The high relief $50 gold coins will be sold only as part of a set that includes the 9 silver dollars surrounding the gold coin in the center in elliptical orbits as part of a presentation case for each of the coins. All presentation cases would bear a plaque with inscriptions that include the names and dates of the spacecraft missions on which astronauts lost their lives over the course of the space program. >>
I guess the Mint decided that Pluto was still a planet.
There are only 13 different original gold commemoratives, and even the modern gold series only has 29 different issues in proof, and 26 in uncirculated.
This 'Franklin Mint mentality' won't be good for collectors, unfortunately, I think that the flood of new issues will dampen the market for gold commems, as new collectors just won't want to keep up.
I bought the TJ Liberty, and may or may not collect the liberty series but that's it for me on these.
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Now that the designs are changing all the time, I no longer get that feeling of wonder as to how the human mind works, how it is that we place so much value on design, on symbols. If anything can be on a coin, the coin becomes less interesting as a medium of expression. With 50 different quarter designs, it's almost hard to know what a "quarter" is supposed to look like.
I recently managed to find decent examples of the 2007-D cent, nickel, and dime in circulation. I was excited to find them and got a certain pleasure from adding them to my albums but I just can't generate the same feeling from catching the most recent state quarter or p-dollar.
I too used to complain about the stagnation in US coin design but now I find we have gone way too far in the other direction. A flood of hastily conceived and executed designs does not make for aesthetic success.
I still collect the cent, nickel, dime, and half from circulation, as I have for years, but the changing designs leave me cold.
No gold, the presi's pets will be in platinum
<< <i>What's next....The Presidential pets gold proof coins??? >>
My prediction is that a series like this would be a hit if ...
... every President that didn't have a pet got an eagle, bear, buffalo, etc. from a classic design, including commems and patterns to make sure we have enough.
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<< <i>In 2008 The Mint will produce a series of high relief Proof only .9999 fine $50 1oz gold coins, one for each planet in the solar system comemorating the NASA's space program 50th year, with a maximum mintage of 50,000 and a Proof only $1 1oz silver coins with a maximum mintage of 300,000 individual coins being offered. No Uncirculated versions of the coins would be produced, a first for the commemorative coin program.
The high relief $50 gold coins will be sold only as part of a set that includes the 9 silver dollars surrounding the gold coin in the center in elliptical orbits as part of a presentation case for each of the coins. All presentation cases would bear a plaque with inscriptions that include the names and dates of the spacecraft missions on which astronauts lost their lives over the course of the space program.
Bronze medals duplicating the designs of the gold coins will also be sold. >>
You may have mis-typed your first paragraph, but you got it right in the second.
There will be only one Gold coin for the 'Sun' and nine silver coins for the planets. In order to get the 'Sun' you have to buy all the planets. There will not be 9 gold coins.
cool? on which planet ;-) pluto?
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<< <i>In 2008 The Mint will produce a series of high relief Proof only .9999 fine $50 1oz gold coins, one for each planet in the solar system comemorating the NASA's space program 50th year, with a maximum mintage of 50,000 and a Proof only $1 1oz silver coins with a maximum mintage of 300,000 individual coins being offered. No Uncirculated versions of the coins would be produced, a first for the commemorative coin program.
The high relief $50 gold coins will be sold only as part of a set that includes the 9 silver dollars surrounding the gold coin in the center in elliptical orbits as part of a presentation case for each of the coins. All presentation cases would bear a plaque with inscriptions that include the names and dates of the spacecraft missions on which astronauts lost their lives over the course of the space program.
Bronze medals duplicating the designs of the gold coins will also be sold. >>
You may have mis-typed your first paragraph, but you got it right in the second.
There will be only one Gold coin for the 'Sun' and nine silver coins for the planets. In order to get the 'Sun' you have to buy all the planets. There will not be 9 gold coins. >>
That is absolutely correct...Just one gold coin....I for one, will order the set if it becomes available...
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And I am biting my nails waiting for the MONICA coin.
A Spade is a Spade.
We all want mo Money.
And everybody wanna go to Heaven,
but nobody wanna Die !!
Ol' Hank !!!
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<< <i>NASA 50th Anniversary Com-memorative Coin Act, referred to the Senate Banking Committee after being received from House as H.R. 2750, would require the Secretary of the Treasury to mint coins in commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the establishment of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
This was popular in the House; introduced by Rep Sheila Jackson-Lee, D-Texas, who introduced it June 15, there were soon 296 cosponsors. This was approved 402-0.
This bill has a different twist. It requires minting and issuance of not more than 50,000 $50 gold coins that would weigh 33.931 grams; have a diameter of 32.7 millimeters; and contain 1 troy ounce of fine gold. There would also be nine silver dollars, one for each planet. "Not more than 300,000 $1 coins of each of the 9 designs specified: could be produced.
Designs are specified: the obverse of the $50 coins issued would contain an image of the sun. The reverse of the $50 coins would have a design emblematic of the sacrifice of the United States astronauts who lost their lives in the line of duty over the course of the space program.
Evidencing that a little numismatic knowledge is dangerous, the bill's author declares that the designs "on the obverse and reverse of the $50 coins issued under this Act shall be in high relief."
The reverse of the $1 coins would bear different designs each of which shall be emblematic of the contributions of the research and space centers, subject to the following requirements.
Some specifics: one reverse of the $1 coins would bear an image of the Earth on the obverse, would also bear images emblematic of, and honoring, the discoveries and missions of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the Mercury, Gemini and Space Shuttle missions and other manned Earth-orbiting missions, and the Apollo missions to the Moon.
Bronze duplicates of the $50 gold coins would be permitted for collectors. Given the importance of American space exploration to world history, this one may move too, though it is hokey to see design specifications for Pluto, Neptune, Jupiter and others. Congress has weighed in on the controversy over Pluto's size: "PLUTO (AND OTHER DWARF PLANETS) COIN The reverse of the $1 coins ... which bear an image of the planet Pluto on the obverse shall include a design that is emblematic of telescopic exploration of deep space by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the ongoing search for Earth-like planets orbiting other stars." >>
I will however have to check to see if the grading services will be restricting 70 grades for fear of "MILK SPOTS" forming.
A Spade is a Spade.
We all want mo Money.
And everybody wanna go to Heaven,
but nobody wanna Die !!
Ol' Hank !!!
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<< <i>Oooh! I got a better idea!
How about a coin series commemorating popular/historical US coins? maybe even made from the same metal as the original >>
Brilliant!
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