1987 Constitution proof $5.00 gold. Does anyone like this coin?

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• 291fifth Posts: 24,710 ✭✭✭✭✭

  June 17, 2004 10:44AM

  Because so many were made it is little more than a bullion item. How cheap is cheap?

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• ursabear Posts: 1,888

  June 17, 2004 11:05AM

  To answer your question, Yes, I do.
  
  I think the obverse is a bit simplistic. but I think the eagle strikes a nice contrast. They're nice coins, whatever the price.

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• TheLiberator Posts: 1,028 ✭✭✭

  June 17, 2004 11:11AM

  
  
  << <i>Because so many were made it is little more than a bullion item. How cheap is cheap? >>
  
  
  
  Well It is certified pr-69 ngc and I for for 105 I believe. I know it boils down to bullion but I like it anyway. (The raw ones in the box are actually about the same price for the 2 piece set but I wanted a certified one to fit in my case and I don't really care about the silver one.) Ok..... So maybe it wasn't REALLY cheap...! But considering I could relist it tomorrow and make a few bucks made it a deal to me.

  

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• meos1 Posts: 1,135 ✭

  June 17, 2004 11:29AM

  I have that coin and really like the design. I believe thats a Marcel Jovine design. He passed away recently if I remember. Who gives a rip about the bullion... Its art. The feather on the reverse of mine looks as if it was floating. So Yes I like that coin. Good thread.
  
  Dan Watson

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• EvilMCT Posts: 799 ✭✭✭

  June 17, 2004 12:25PM

  I'm glad that it's not "worth" much more than bullion. Had it been produced in low quantity, I probably wouldn't have been able to afford this wonderfully designed coin. It's one of the few modern commemoratives that I like.
  
  Ken

  my knuckles, they bleed, on your front door

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• Cladiator Posts: 18,257 ✭✭✭✭✭

  June 17, 2004 2:28PM

  absolutely my favorite modern commem! Got any pics of the one you just got?

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• TheLiberator Posts: 1,028 ✭✭✭

  June 17, 2004 2:38PM

  Not yet! She's in the mail!

  

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• meos1 Posts: 1,135 ✭

  June 18, 2004 6:02AM

  ttt - Worthy thread.

  I am just throwing cheese to the rats chewing on the chains of my sanity!
  
  First Place Winner of the 2005 Rampage design contest!

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• BillJones Posts: 34,843 ✭✭✭✭✭

  June 18, 2004 11:31AM

  I think that both sides of the gold coin are pretty nice, especially the eagle. The obverse of the silver dollar is passible, but reverse looks like a set a bowling pins.

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• nwcs Posts: 13,386 ✭✭✭

  June 18, 2004 12:18PM

  No. Of the late 80s commems, my favorite was the 200th anniv of Congress dollar coin. But I will say, of the dollar and $5 for the constitution, the $5 is better. The event deserved a better design than it got.

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