Now the question is, will they be released at the same time? Or on the anniversary date for each? October 13 for Navy and November 10 for the Marines? Both dates fall on a Monday.
Throw a coin enough times, and suppose one day it lands on its edge.
Now the question is, will they be released at the same time? Or on the anniversary date for each? October 13 for Navy and November 10 for the Marines? Both dates fall on a Monday.
No, they won't be released on the same date, any more than they were released on the same date as the first one. Whether the dates will be a Monday, Tuesday, or another day is TBD. Count on it being on or around the anniversary dates.
Now the question is, will they be released at the same time? Or on the anniversary date for each? October 13 for Navy and November 10 for the Marines? Both dates fall on a Monday.
No, they won't be released on the same date, any more than they were released on the same date as the first one. Whether the dates will be a Monday, Tuesday, or another day is TBD. Count on it being on or around the anniversary dates.
I'm hoping.
Throw a coin enough times, and suppose one day it lands on its edge.
@RichR said:
Also...why wouldn't they have produced X number of multicoin sets containing all three service privy coins???
Obviously there was an audience for them.
Is there an audience at $500 or $600 per set? Would set availability hurt single sales given that some of that demand is based on dealer buying which includes sets.?
@RichR said:
[There is a small chance the mint is only striking 75k coins based on this week numbers.]
Or create 25k "special" 3-coin sets at a later date....!
Yes, that seems possible since the numbers have rounded to 75k. The 25k left in the mintage limit goes to a special set of all three. It is not on the schedule and would have to be a surprise.
@RichR said:
[There is a small chance the mint is only striking 75k coins based on this week numbers.]
Or create 25k "special" 3-coin sets at a later date....!
Obviously, after what they pulled with the FH gold and silver product, they can and will do whatever they want.
That said, the Product Limit for the Army ASE is 100K. Same as the Mintage Limit. So they'd have to go back, as they did with FH silver medal, and revise the Product Limit if they are going to make them available in another product.
Not to mention, 25K would create a feeding frenzy, so I don't see it. It's more likely that they cancelled 4K orders, and the coins will show up some morning at 7:30 a.m. Won't do most of us any good if they don't lift the HHL.
Because if they didn't make them, they wouldn't have sold them in the first place, as with the FH product. And if they held them back, that would have been disclosed via a different Product Limit, or no published Product Limit at all. Also, if they held them back, they wouldn't have been reported as sold before being reported as returned.
They very likely did sell 80K on opening day, with these 4K now resulting from invalid cancelled orders above and beyond what they cancelled and resold the day after release. The missing 10K probably did go to bulk buyers, in addition to the 10K previously reported as the Advance Release sales. Maybe in 40 coin trays.
Because what they have been doing lately with bulk buyers, giving them more than their published maximum allocations, has also been going on at least since the FH release last year, where they gave allocations based on maximum mintages they knew they weren't producing weeks or months before the rest of us found out. And they even exceeded their published bulk sales limits based on those maximum mintages.
There is nothing stopping them from doing whatever they want, and they are taking full advantage. Because they are running a business, and not breaking any laws. Just breaking whatever covenant they have with us to be open and transparent in what they are doing.
As long as we continue to line up like lemmings to grab whatever we think we will be able to flip, nothing will change. When we finally get disgusted, as happened with many foreign mints, our Mint will either get religion and start doing exactly what they say they are going to do, as opposed to playing semantic games with so-called "limits" on production, by not producing up to the published limit when there is demand exceeding supply, and with pushing product out the door to preferred customers in excess of what they say they will. Or doing it at all with products everyone knows will be hot. Otherwise, the golden goose will be buried once and for all, and people will lose interest in modern Mint treasures.
All you can do is buy what you like and ignore the rest, without regard to what they say they are going to do. Because they can't get out of their own way, overproducing and overpricing some things, while under producing and under pricing others, and being anything but transparent along the way.
@NJCoin said:
As long as we continue to line up like lemmings to grab whatever we think we will be able to flip, nothing will change. When we finally get disgusted, as happened with many foreign mints, our Mint will either get religion and start doing exactly what they say they are going to do, as opposed to playing semantic games with so-called "limits" on production, by not producing up to the published limit when there is demand exceeding supply
The mint has many times not struck coins to the stated limits. Sometimes it was because they couldn't get enough blanks to do the entire run. They also have to get the packaging as well, and that has reduced coin sales in the past. There is no conspiracy in all this.
The mint often guesses at demand, and the first coins can be understruck because they guessed wrong.
Coins can also be overstuck, and sit on the mint website for years as sales dwindle in. This is why they tend to understrike some coins, especially new designs or concepts that have no track record of past sales. With silver eagles, people can say those have track records, and so it may be they only had so many blanks for the entire program, and had to split those up among the many coins that need those blanks. These ones got allocated less than others.
@NJCoin said:
As long as we continue to line up like lemmings to grab whatever we think we will be able to flip, nothing will change. When we finally get disgusted, as happened with many foreign mints, our Mint will either get religion and start doing exactly what they say they are going to do, as opposed to playing semantic games with so-called "limits" on production, by not producing up to the published limit when there is demand exceeding supply
The mint has many times not struck coins to the stated limits. Sometimes it was because they couldn't get enough blanks to do the entire run. They also have to get the packaging as well, and that has reduced coin sales in the past. There is no conspiracy in all this.
The mint often guesses at demand, and the first coins can be understruck because they guessed wrong.
Coins can also be overstuck, and sit on the mint website for years as sales dwindle in. This is why they tend to understrike some coins, especially new designs or concepts that have no track record of past sales. With silver eagles, people can say those have track records, and so it may be they only had so many blanks for the entire program, and had to split those up among the many coins that need those blanks. These ones got allocated less than others.
Agree to disagree. This isn't COVID, and there is no shortage of anything. In the past, when packaging or production was an issue, they would accept back orders and ship on a delayed basis, producing to demand up to announced limits.
Didn't happen with the FH silver privys or gold coins. Because Big Boys made a killing on the lack of transparency and preferential treatment. Not because there was any reason under sun for the Mint to announce one thing and then do another. Twice in the same year with related product. If they did the same thing here, after that, anyone who is surprised has no one but themselves to blame.
What's happening now is not a conspiracy. It's a lack of regard for transparency, combined with an element of incompetence and a dash of people in positions of power wanting to disproportionately direct excess profits attributable to under pricing or under production to select few large customers rather than to the public at large.
They know full well what's going to be successful and what won't be. We are not smarter than they are, and they have enough consultants doing enough surveys, in addition to the Big Boys whispering in their ear, to know exactly what they are doing. With rare exceptions, such as the 2024 Morgan and Peace Dollars, where they simply over reached on pricing and literally paid the price.
Burnished AGEs, or ASEs for that matter, sitting on the shelf, unloved and unsold, won't be the reason Army privy ASEs were either short struck or disproportionately found their way into bulk buyers' hands.
If they keep going on the current path, and superhero coins in addition to umpteen privys, etc. are a sign that they might, and they very well might turn the numismatic program into The Franklin Mint 2.0. They had a thriving, successful business once upon a time. They also saturated the market and took their customers for granted. Where are they today?
Make all the excuses you want for them. Between you and my lyin' eyes, I know what I'm going with.
There will be no three coin sets.
The question now is if they minted 100k as expected or just 75k.
My opinion is they struck 100k. Too much demand for Silver Proof eagles to strike less.
Which means there will be one day where a whole bunch become available.
Does the US Navy deserve a 250thanniversary coin?? Is the 250th anniversary of the US Navy legit?
After all, the US Navy disbanded after the Revolutionary War and did not start up again until 1794.
Example: If a couple was first married 49 years ago but got divorced and remarried in the middle somewhere (say for a 10 year split), do they get to count their upcoming anniversary year as their 50th wedding anniversary?? I would think not.
Does the US Navy deserve a 250thanniversary coin?? Is the 250th anniversary of the US Navy legit?
After all, the US Navy disbanded after the Revolutionary War and did not start up again until 1794.
Example: If a couple was first married 49 years ago but got divorced and remarried in the middle somewhere (say for a 10 year split), do they get to count their upcoming anniversary year as their 50th wedding anniversary?? I would think not.
Since the Navy considers that their anniversary and has for 200+ years, I see no reason to quibble.
If you start dating in high school, break up for a couple years in high school, can't you still celebrate the anniversary of your first date?
Re anniversary dates...the entire military was practically disbanded after WWI (if not in actuality, then in effect), until the buildup to WWII started in the late 1930s.
So I wouldn't begrudge the Navy (and I assume the Marines...officially part of the Navy at that time)...their due.
Does the US Navy deserve a 250thanniversary coin?? Is the 250th anniversary of the US Navy legit?
After all, the US Navy disbanded after the Revolutionary War and did not start up again until 1794.
Example: If a couple was first married 49 years ago but got divorced and remarried in the middle somewhere (say for a 10 year split), do they get to count their upcoming anniversary year as their 50th wedding anniversary?? I would think not.
@NJCoin said:
What's happening now is not a conspiracy. It's a lack of regard for transparency, combined with an element of incompetence and a dash of people in positions of power wanting to disproportionately direct excess profits attributable to under pricing or under production to select few large customers rather than to the public at large.
They know full well what's going to be successful and what won't be. We are not smarter than they are, and they have enough consultants doing enough surveys, in addition to the Big Boys whispering in their ear, to know exactly what they are doing. With rare exceptions, such as the 2024 Morgan and Peace Dollars, where they simply over reached on pricing and literally paid the price.
The mint has never been obligated to strike all the coins that are the stated limits. Many times they haven't done it.
This may be just one more of many times, like in the past. We won't know for sure until these ship and they close out the product. Prices on ebay are even higher this morning, probably based on the low sales number. $270 to $280 now raw.
All we can say for sure was the maximum mintage was to be 100k. Nothing more than that. And nothing said they couldn't strike less.
Does the US Navy deserve a 250thanniversary coin?? Is the 250th anniversary of the US Navy legit?
After all, the US Navy disbanded after the Revolutionary War and did not start up again until 1794.
Example: If a couple was first married 49 years ago but got divorced and remarried in the middle somewhere (say for a 10 year split), do they get to count their upcoming anniversary year as their 50th wedding anniversary?? I would think not.
Since the Navy considers that their anniversary and has for 200+ years, I see no reason to quibble.
If you start dating in high school, break up for a couple years in high school, can't you still celebrate the anniversary of your first date?
Since y’all started the deep-thot cycle, How about if you remarry the same person three or four times, still celebrating the original date of marriage or otherwise?
[Does the US Navy deserve a 250th anniversary coin?? Is the 250th anniversary of the US Navy legit?
After all, the US Navy disbanded after the Revolutionary War and did not start up again until 1794.]
The Navy will be rolling over your house with a destroyer in 3-2-1...
Does the US Navy deserve a 250thanniversary coin?? Is the 250th anniversary of the US Navy legit?
After all, the US Navy disbanded after the Revolutionary War and did not start up again until 1794.
Example: If a couple was first married 49 years ago but got divorced and remarried in the middle somewhere (say for a 10 year split), do they get to count their upcoming anniversary year as their 50th wedding anniversary?? I would think not.
Since the Navy considers that their anniversary and has for 200+ years, I see no reason to quibble.
If you start dating in high school, break up for a couple years in high school, can't you still celebrate the anniversary of your first date?
Since y’all started the deep-thot cycle, How about if you remarry the same person three or four times, still celebrating the original date of marriage or otherwise?
@NJCoin said:
What's happening now is not a conspiracy. It's a lack of regard for transparency, combined with an element of incompetence and a dash of people in positions of power wanting to disproportionately direct excess profits attributable to under pricing or under production to select few large customers rather than to the public at large.
They know full well what's going to be successful and what won't be. We are not smarter than they are, and they have enough consultants doing enough surveys, in addition to the Big Boys whispering in their ear, to know exactly what they are doing. With rare exceptions, such as the 2024 Morgan and Peace Dollars, where they simply over reached on pricing and literally paid the price.
The mint has never been obligated to strike all the coins that are the stated limits. Many times they haven't done it.
This may be just one more of many times, like in the past. We won't know for sure until these ship and they close out the product. Prices on ebay are even higher this morning, probably based on the low sales number. $270 to $280 now raw.
All we can say for sure was the maximum mintage was to be 100k. Nothing more than that. And nothing said they couldn't strike less.
Correct. This is my point. They are not obligated to do anything. Just like we are not obligated to do anything. The Franklin Mint also wasn't obligated to do anything.
"And nothing said they couldn't strike less." Same argument that was made before. So, what's the point of putting out a number, if the actual number, in spite of adequate demand, can literally be anything between 0 and the published number? I get saying burnished AGEs have a mintage limit of 7500 and they only sell 2,000 because no one wants them.
I don't get saying something has a mintage limit of 100K and they only sell 75K when they could sell 200K, just because "nothing said they couldn't strike less." Because, as I said before, this literally means that what they say with regard to mintages is meaningless.
If they keep doing this, I'm telling you, people are first going to start tuning them out, and then start losing interest in silver trinkets priced at over $100 per ounce. Already happened with gold trinkets priced at over $4,000 per ounce.
Many examples of this with various world and private mints. Our beloved Mint is not immune, even though you think what they are doing is okay.
@RichR said:
[Does the US Navy deserve a 250th anniversary coin?? Is the 250th anniversary of the US Navy legit?
After all, the US Navy disbanded after the Revolutionary War and did not start up again until 1794.]
The Navy will be rolling over your house with a destroyer in 3-2-1...
I'll put a couple of rubber ducks in the puddles out front...
Our Navy seems to like to run into things lately when they're in congested waters!
I'm sure they'll bump into something along the way!!
Maybe the Navy should reach out to the oldest continuous naval service in the United States and ask about rules of the road and basic seamanship!
Does the US Navy deserve a 250thanniversary coin?? Is the 250th anniversary of the US Navy legit?
After all, the US Navy disbanded after the Revolutionary War and did not start up again until 1794.
Example: If a couple was first married 49 years ago but got divorced and remarried in the middle somewhere (say for a 10 year split), do they get to count their upcoming anniversary year as their 50th wedding anniversary?? I would think not.
Since the Navy considers that their anniversary and has for 200+ years, I see no reason to quibble.
If you start dating in high school, break up for a couple years in high school, can't you still celebrate the anniversary of your first date?
Since y’all started the deep-thot cycle, How about if you remarry the same person three or four times, still celebrating the original date of marriage or otherwise?
@HATTRICK said:
Nothing new worthwhile to say about the coin so the BS begins.
No. What's new is a report they recently published stating that they sold 75K out of a mintage limit of 100K, while they are going for more than double issue price on eBay and they are unavailable for purchase on the website.
I guess "new" or "worthwhile" is in the eye of the beholder, but those who shared the news and then commented on it apparently don't share your view.
@NJCoin said:
If they keep doing this, I'm telling you, people are first going to start tuning them out, and then start losing interest in silver trinkets priced at over $100 per ounce. Already happened with gold trinkets priced at over $4,000 per ounce.
Many examples of this with various world and private mints. Our beloved Mint is not immune, even though you think what they are doing is okay.
So far prices have gone up, not down. And the same thing happened with the flowing hair medals. They understruck the mintage limits, and everyone still wanted them.
Most collectors want low mintage, not high mintage. Low mintage usually brings a premium to what they pay, and so they would be happy to receive this coin with a 75k mintage as opposed to a 100k mintage.
So far prices have gone up, not down. And the same thing happened with the flowing hair medals. They understruck the mintage limits, and everyone still wanted them.
Most collectors want low mintage, not high mintage. Low mintage usually brings a premium to what they pay, and so they would be happy to receive this coin with a 75k mintage as opposed to a 100k mintage.
Agree, and I have no idea as to why this is a problem for some people. The over analyzing & overthinking of Mintage Limits has become an annoyance now. You would think that one would learn from their past poor record on the subject, maybe not.
75k would be a good thing for everyone, including the Mint if this number holds up. We'll see.
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6 weeks or so
July 29
Now the question is, will they be released at the same time? Or on the anniversary date for each? October 13 for Navy and November 10 for the Marines? Both dates fall on a Monday.
Throw a coin enough times, and suppose one day it lands on its edge.
Shipping is expected to begin July 29, 2025.
No, they won't be released on the same date, any more than they were released on the same date as the first one. Whether the dates will be a Monday, Tuesday, or another day is TBD. Count on it being on or around the anniversary dates.
I'm hoping.
Throw a coin enough times, and suppose one day it lands on its edge.
What's the page source code to see available on mint page? The ones I have don't work anymore.
Did any actually become available today???
79,000 coins is no small total.
That was 9 days ago. The rest probably went out the backdoor to the BIGS. THKS!
The whole worlds off its rocker, buy Gold™.
BOOMIN!™
Wooooha! Did someone just say it's officially "TACO™" Tuesday????
No
...more likely they'll suddenly pop up as available when the other "service" Eagles become available in the fall...
Also...why wouldn't they have produced X number of multicoin sets containing all three service privy coins???
Obviously there was an audience for them.
Is there an audience at $500 or $600 per set? Would set availability hurt single sales given that some of that demand is based on dealer buying which includes sets.?
Latest sales show it dropped by 4,119 coins from last week.
Early sales showed about 10% went to bulk sales, but no updates yet.
There is a small chance the mint is only striking 75k coins based on this week numbers.
looks like they can mint and sell more
[There is a small chance the mint is only striking 75k coins based on this week numbers.]
Or create 25k "special" 3-coin sets at a later date....!
Yes, that seems possible since the numbers have rounded to 75k. The 25k left in the mintage limit goes to a special set of all three. It is not on the schedule and would have to be a surprise.
"all 3"
coast guard, air force, space force? 6 coin set?
To all who will be trying to hype the flip. Flip off.
They don't have a 250th anniversary this year
Obviously, after what they pulled with the FH gold and silver product, they can and will do whatever they want.
That said, the Product Limit for the Army ASE is 100K. Same as the Mintage Limit. So they'd have to go back, as they did with FH silver medal, and revise the Product Limit if they are going to make them available in another product.
Not to mention, 25K would create a feeding frenzy, so I don't see it. It's more likely that they cancelled 4K orders, and the coins will show up some morning at 7:30 a.m. Won't do most of us any good if they don't lift the HHL.
Because if they didn't make them, they wouldn't have sold them in the first place, as with the FH product. And if they held them back, that would have been disclosed via a different Product Limit, or no published Product Limit at all. Also, if they held them back, they wouldn't have been reported as sold before being reported as returned.
They very likely did sell 80K on opening day, with these 4K now resulting from invalid cancelled orders above and beyond what they cancelled and resold the day after release. The missing 10K probably did go to bulk buyers, in addition to the 10K previously reported as the Advance Release sales. Maybe in 40 coin trays.
Because what they have been doing lately with bulk buyers, giving them more than their published maximum allocations, has also been going on at least since the FH release last year, where they gave allocations based on maximum mintages they knew they weren't producing weeks or months before the rest of us found out. And they even exceeded their published bulk sales limits based on those maximum mintages.
There is nothing stopping them from doing whatever they want, and they are taking full advantage. Because they are running a business, and not breaking any laws. Just breaking whatever covenant they have with us to be open and transparent in what they are doing.
As long as we continue to line up like lemmings to grab whatever we think we will be able to flip, nothing will change. When we finally get disgusted, as happened with many foreign mints, our Mint will either get religion and start doing exactly what they say they are going to do, as opposed to playing semantic games with so-called "limits" on production, by not producing up to the published limit when there is demand exceeding supply, and with pushing product out the door to preferred customers in excess of what they say they will. Or doing it at all with products everyone knows will be hot. Otherwise, the golden goose will be buried once and for all, and people will lose interest in modern Mint treasures.
All you can do is buy what you like and ignore the rest, without regard to what they say they are going to do. Because they can't get out of their own way, overproducing and overpricing some things, while under producing and under pricing others, and being anything but transparent along the way.
The mint has many times not struck coins to the stated limits. Sometimes it was because they couldn't get enough blanks to do the entire run. They also have to get the packaging as well, and that has reduced coin sales in the past. There is no conspiracy in all this.
The mint often guesses at demand, and the first coins can be understruck because they guessed wrong.
Coins can also be overstuck, and sit on the mint website for years as sales dwindle in. This is why they tend to understrike some coins, especially new designs or concepts that have no track record of past sales. With silver eagles, people can say those have track records, and so it may be they only had so many blanks for the entire program, and had to split those up among the many coins that need those blanks. These ones got allocated less than others.
that and i asked a couple of days ago if anyone went to the ebay table. it was whitman last weekend
i feel wonderful
Agree to disagree. This isn't COVID, and there is no shortage of anything. In the past, when packaging or production was an issue, they would accept back orders and ship on a delayed basis, producing to demand up to announced limits.
Didn't happen with the FH silver privys or gold coins. Because Big Boys made a killing on the lack of transparency and preferential treatment. Not because there was any reason under sun for the Mint to announce one thing and then do another. Twice in the same year with related product. If they did the same thing here, after that, anyone who is surprised has no one but themselves to blame.
What's happening now is not a conspiracy. It's a lack of regard for transparency, combined with an element of incompetence and a dash of people in positions of power wanting to disproportionately direct excess profits attributable to under pricing or under production to select few large customers rather than to the public at large.
They know full well what's going to be successful and what won't be. We are not smarter than they are, and they have enough consultants doing enough surveys, in addition to the Big Boys whispering in their ear, to know exactly what they are doing. With rare exceptions, such as the 2024 Morgan and Peace Dollars, where they simply over reached on pricing and literally paid the price.
Burnished AGEs, or ASEs for that matter, sitting on the shelf, unloved and unsold, won't be the reason Army privy ASEs were either short struck or disproportionately found their way into bulk buyers' hands.
If they keep going on the current path, and superhero coins in addition to umpteen privys, etc. are a sign that they might, and they very well might turn the numismatic program into The Franklin Mint 2.0. They had a thriving, successful business once upon a time. They also saturated the market and took their customers for granted. Where are they today?
Make all the excuses you want for them. Between you and my lyin' eyes, I know what I'm going with.
Hmmm. Internet nonsense huh?
Looks like current sales are just shy of 75k
That’s upwards of 20k coins.
I don’t know how
Much longer I can even read posts from NJCoin who has absolutely no clue.
There will be no three coin sets.
The question now is if they minted 100k as expected or just 75k.
My opinion is they struck 100k. Too much demand for Silver Proof eagles to strike less.
Which means there will be one day where a whole bunch become available.
Which makes one wonder...
Does the US Navy deserve a 250th anniversary coin?? Is the 250th anniversary of the US Navy legit?
After all, the US Navy disbanded after the Revolutionary War and did not start up again until 1794.
Example: If a couple was first married 49 years ago but got divorced and remarried in the middle somewhere (say for a 10 year split), do they get to count their upcoming anniversary year as their 50th wedding anniversary?? I would think not.
BST references available on request
At least his posts are short.
Since the Navy considers that their anniversary and has for 200+ years, I see no reason to quibble.
If you start dating in high school, break up for a couple years in high school, can't you still celebrate the anniversary of your first date?
Re anniversary dates...the entire military was practically disbanded after WWI (if not in actuality, then in effect), until the buildup to WWII started in the late 1930s.
So I wouldn't begrudge the Navy (and I assume the Marines...officially part of the Navy at that time)...their due.
Mint money grab.
The mint has never been obligated to strike all the coins that are the stated limits. Many times they haven't done it.
This may be just one more of many times, like in the past. We won't know for sure until these ship and they close out the product. Prices on ebay are even higher this morning, probably based on the low sales number. $270 to $280 now raw.
All we can say for sure was the maximum mintage was to be 100k. Nothing more than that. And nothing said they couldn't strike less.
Since y’all started the deep-thot cycle, How about if you remarry the same person three or four times, still celebrating the original date of marriage or otherwise?
Go get em, paper tigers!
[Does the US Navy deserve a 250th anniversary coin?? Is the 250th anniversary of the US Navy legit?
After all, the US Navy disbanded after the Revolutionary War and did not start up again until 1794.]
The Navy will be rolling over your house with a destroyer in 3-2-1...
Did they marry someone else in between?
Correct. This is my point. They are not obligated to do anything. Just like we are not obligated to do anything. The Franklin Mint also wasn't obligated to do anything.
"And nothing said they couldn't strike less." Same argument that was made before. So, what's the point of putting out a number, if the actual number, in spite of adequate demand, can literally be anything between 0 and the published number? I get saying burnished AGEs have a mintage limit of 7500 and they only sell 2,000 because no one wants them.
I don't get saying something has a mintage limit of 100K and they only sell 75K when they could sell 200K, just because "nothing said they couldn't strike less." Because, as I said before, this literally means that what they say with regard to mintages is meaningless.
If they keep doing this, I'm telling you, people are first going to start tuning them out, and then start losing interest in silver trinkets priced at over $100 per ounce. Already happened with gold trinkets priced at over $4,000 per ounce.
Many examples of this with various world and private mints. Our beloved Mint is not immune, even though you think what they are doing is okay.
this is a long survey. there are chances to complain about prices, subject matter, and artistic quality
[Go get em, paper tigers!]
Take the survey...
"YOUR MOTHER WEARS ARMY BOOTS...AND SHE DRESSES YOU FUNNY!"
I'll put a couple of rubber ducks in the puddles out front...
Our Navy seems to like to run into things lately when they're in congested waters!
I'm sure they'll bump into something along the way!!
Maybe the Navy should reach out to the oldest continuous naval service in the United States and ask about rules of the road and basic seamanship!
BST references available on request
Wait, is this one of those "southern" jokes??
BST references available on request
Nothing new worthwhile to say about the coin so the BS begins.
No. What's new is a report they recently published stating that they sold 75K out of a mintage limit of 100K, while they are going for more than double issue price on eBay and they are unavailable for purchase on the website.
I guess "new" or "worthwhile" is in the eye of the beholder, but those who shared the news and then commented on it apparently don't share your view.
what report? url?
So far prices have gone up, not down. And the same thing happened with the flowing hair medals. They understruck the mintage limits, and everyone still wanted them.
Most collectors want low mintage, not high mintage. Low mintage usually brings a premium to what they pay, and so they would be happy to receive this coin with a 75k mintage as opposed to a 100k mintage.
Agree, and I have no idea as to why this is a problem for some people. The over analyzing & overthinking of Mintage Limits has become an annoyance now. You would think that one would learn from their past poor record on the subject, maybe not.
75k would be a good thing for everyone, including the Mint if this number holds up. We'll see.
if the mint is making money, wouldn't selling 25k more be a better thing for the mint?