All Army and MOH commems went black!

kiyote

That's it, it's over.. we may have a new key in the Unc 50 cent coin. The mintages as of Tuesday were 38,464, still well under the previous lowest minted 1996 Swimming half dollar at 49,533.

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kiyote

He's laughing 'cause I posted my search term by accident! I've since fixed it, but if anyone wants something else to laugh at, I flipped all of my $$$ from selling my 25th Anniversary sets into 180 Unc commem Army half dollars! The downside risk is actually pretty considerable at $20 per thus-far unpopular coin! I look at the box of them sometimes and wonder what the heck I was thinking.

mikeyg

Wow that takes alot of ba**s kiyote.Hope it works out for you.

7Jaguars

I think relative sales failures such as this issue show the huge sag in collector base.
True many are rather ugly but there was a time that the slavish mint customers would inhale this stuff. With your exception flippers seem not to have touched this one and despite being well publicized show VERY FEW actual collectors IMO.

derryb

Mine look gold.

fivecents

A bought fifty unc Army halves last minute. These are the most beat up looking commems since the 1982 George Washington half. PCGS MS70 coins will be few and far between.

Coins101

<< <i>A bought fifty unc Army halves last minute. These are the most beat up looking commems since the 1982 George Washington half. PCGS MS70 coins will be few and far between. >>



I agree. I bought 25 when I ordered the gold coins and ended up sending back all 25. REALLY poor quality.

kiyote

<< <i>A bought fifty unc Army halves last minute. These are the most beat up looking commems since the 1982 George Washington half. PCGS MS70 coins will be few and far between. >>



Agreed-- the PCGScoinfacts photo shows a MS68 that's a great example of what most of my box ended up looking like.

The one thing I do think it has going for it that the Swimming half doesn't have is that there's a lot of folks either in the Army or veterans; maybe a decent amount will end up in non-collector hands. The Marines dollar and Boy Scout coins have the same things going for them.

FaberCastell

<< <i>A bought fifty unc Army halves last minute. These are the most beat up looking commems since the 1982 George Washington half. PCGS MS70 coins will be few and far between. >>



Not only condition, but the Army half is one ugly design to boot.

TWQG

I only took interest in the gold. It was nice to have a small price drop before they ended sales.

Manorcourtman

<< <i>That's it, it's over.. we may have a new key in the Unc 50 cent coin. The mintages as of Tuesday were 38,464, still well under the previous lowest minted 1996 Swimming half dollar at 49,533. >>



Good luck with your hoard, I bet you'll have to hold it a long, long time to get your money back on these.

shorecoll

I just hope another 100 people didn't do the same thing you did. I bought 2 of each of the Unc gold and 5 halves...not a lot of downside.