2025 Batman Comic Art.
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Not sure what is the demand going to be today for the 2025 Batman Comic Art gold coin and silver medals.
I will not be ordering any today, but I would like to see what the 2.5 ounce silver medal will do considering that it's only 25K mintage.
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I probably won't pick one up today. I see they loaded 4987 pieces available to sell so it'll be interesting to see how fast those move. The mint hasn't been transparent about how they manage or allocate their stated mintages.
I might pick up the Wonder Woman coin in November if gold isn't $5K an ounce or higher by then.
I agree with you, the Wonder Woman is much nicer, I will pick up one too.
The expected in-stock date is Thu Jan 29 2026.
My Superman was $300 less.
25K 2.5oz is same at Superman
Gold spot: ~$3,730/oz.
Batman: $2,990/½oz. = $5,980/oz.
Eye candy only, for me.
~One hour after open, gold ats=4120. Not exactly selling out here.
Yikes. I guess we've discovered the breaking point for coin prices -- at least for this series
I could swear that when Superman went on sale there were already listings on eBay for slabbed 70s with various labels from both NGC and PCGS, for all three sizes. Today for Batman, not a single one.
Yes, far too much wind in the prices of this series. Hard pass for me.
The very slow sales for the batman gold coin is an ominous sign for the rest of the releases, as batman is the top seller when it comes to DC, at least in the toy market. Next year sales will probably fall to under 2500 for those three, followed by sales under 2000 for the final year.
I'm really not sure who the market is for these. They are too pricey for someone to just toss it into their comic collection for fun.
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I think these were first conceived when the gold price was significantly lower. Going forward, I think the mint needs to consider silver for their future releases. I know there are Comic Arts silver medals but they aren't real coins. Even platinum is less than half the cost of gold at this point.
Even the silver medals are too pricey, what with the usual Mint premium plus whatever commission DC gets. At least a few of the offerings from other countries have both silver and gold versions so there's some precedent for gold here.
The press release announcing the program was on July 10, 2024. Gold spot price was $2373 on that day (having peaked just above 2400 about a month earlier and hovering in this range since late February). The program was certainly negotiated for some time before that. For reference, today's spot is ~$3750.
½oz. Gold Batman
ats: 3,844
2-½oz. Silver Batman
ats: 18,453
Not exactly the numbers the Mint had in mind for this gala promotion.
Maybe if the Superman pieces were made of Kryptonite, they might of been cheaper 😀