Nobody Wants To Collect These Things...
Coll3ctor
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So I've been cracking them open and leaving for tips at bars and restaurants 
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I usually carry a few AI dollars to toss into tip jars. People really seem to like them actually.
Nothing is as expensive as free money.
"When they can't find anything wrong with you, they create it!"
No, you’re thinking of the New Hampshire AI dollar!
https://www.usmint.gov/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/2021-american-innovation-one-dollar-coin-new-hampshire-uncirculated-reverse.jpg
Interestingly, this is the correct orientation of the reverse.
Nothing is as expensive as free money.
"No one"?
They would have been worth more than face to someone.
I've had them listed here on the BST board and FB forums for several months @ $8.00 per set with zero interest. Selling for under $10.00 on eBay so it's not worth the hassle after fees and shipping.
I spent 4 SBA dollars the other day on my coffee. I made sure to let them know that they were dollars and not quarters. I remember getting lots of them in change as quarters back in 79.
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And now they may catch the attention of someone that becomes a collector.
Nothing is as expensive as free money.
The Westward Journey Nickel Sets will be the next ones I will crack open or maybe I'll just hand them the whole set. I remember back in the day with the initial craze the sets were selling for near $50.00.
$8 to $4. Wasn't there any middle ground?
It's the postage that complicates things, of course, but if the quantity can spread that out thin enough then there may have been a buyer.
No interest, no offers. I had around 10 sets now I'm down to 4.
For $2.00 over face per set I'll have more fun spending them.
I am thinking there is a good reason many don't want these over FV.
What are those things😜
Sad these never took off. I wish we used the dollar coin as frequently as Canada uses it. I know the paper dollar isn’t going away due to lobbyists but I think that’s the only way we can get dollar coins being used regularly.
I offered a group of statehood quarter rolls (about 30 or 40 of them, I think it was) on the BST back when greysheet bid was $20-$40/roll. The best offer I got would have netted me less than face value after paying to ship them.
Just sayin'.
There are a few that I would have paid a snall premium for, plus postage.
Small premium not worth the time or chance for drama.
I left so many of these in tips overseas.
They don't get wet an if they do, they dry quickly.
The Mexicans also did not want them. lol
Wayne
Kennedys are my quest...
Bingo.
It's not that no one would have paid over face, it's that it wasn't worth it to you.
I had a friend whose mother couldn't sell her condo and he said that no one was buying. The truth was that the market was pretty strongt but she was asking too much.
But your decision to avoid a modest gain does not mean there was no gain to be had. It was your decision.
"But your decision to avoid a modest gain does not mean there was no gain to be had. It was your decision."
There was zero interest in these sets!
Yes it was my decision not to waste any more of my time promoting/packaging/shipping them off for a possible buck per set profit.
Smarter to crack them open and put smiles on peoples face with tips.
$0.0724360 is the melt value for the 2007-2014 Presidential golden dollar on July 18, 2021. Wonder why nobody wants them. LOL
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I “collect” them for tips!
I’d just vacuum pack them and put them in storage for posterity. They corrode so easy that one day intact ones might be worth something when all the rest get spent or corrode. For rolls, put them in a mason jar with a desiccant pack in with them and store them away like a time capsule.
It’s funny that people don’t save coins when they are new and cheap and in great condition. But once they are obsolete people will start setting them aside if they come across them even if they are all beat up.
Mr_Spud
The prezzie bucks never appealed to me... Neither the design nor the theme. Sick and tired of politicians on coins, would like to see a return to art. The Sacagawea is a nice coin. But most of the moderns are either images of politicians or commercialized designs. Just totally disgusted with them. American coinage can be so much better. Cheers, RickO
There's just too much modern junk coming out of the mint. State Quarters were enough, but now they're going overboard. If they're spendable now, they will be spendable 50 years from now.
Unless a coin has real gold or silver in them, no interest at all as far as I'm concerned.