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08HALA2008HALA20 Posts: 3,066 ✭✭✭
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I am in for a couple of sets.

Anyone else?

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  • MeltdownMeltdown Posts: 9,240 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I like the deisgn, I'll probably get one or two.
  • MrSpudMrSpud Posts: 4,499 ✭✭✭
    They look interesting
  • coinsarefuncoinsarefun Posts: 21,781 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I like the looks
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  • rah1959rah1959 Posts: 964 ✭
    love the obverse on the $1 coin...the reverse sucks...

    The clad half looks too busy for me

    The $5 obverse is too busy...the reverse is a rehash of the Kenndey reverse....which I see too many of during my half dollar searches

    I am all for the money going to help the birds.....

    I may purchase the $1 coin....

    will wait and see.
  • EagleguyEagleguy Posts: 2,264 ✭✭✭✭✭
    A shame they didn't mate the 1/2 dollar reverse with the dollar obverse. Still, not a bad set, in spite of the mintages.
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  • jhusmanjhusman Posts: 1,082 ✭
    I think I'm in for a set.
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  • Dollar2007Dollar2007 Posts: 774 ✭✭✭
    I like the clad one the best, which is good its the cheapest.
  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Interesting... I will wait until I can view actual images of coins... but could be quite attractive. Cheers, RickO
  • guitarwesguitarwes Posts: 9,308 ✭✭✭

    I'm in for the Silver $, looks good. The $5 and the 1/2 $ don't do much for me at all.
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  • ONETHREEONETHREE Posts: 1,126 ✭
    Interesting that they apparently went with the image of juvenile bald eagles on the gold. (At least judging by that image.)
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  • 08HALA2008HALA20 Posts: 3,066 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Interesting... I will wait until I can view actual images of coins... but could be quite attractive. Cheers, RickO >>



    Same here

    Not sure if I will buy both Proof and Uncirc or just 1 of them.

    Will wait for better pics.

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  • MajorDutyMajorDuty Posts: 1,998
    I've been eagerly awaiting to see what these would look like since I first heard about them and will probably get a set.
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  • 19Lyds19Lyds Posts: 26,497 ✭✭✭✭
    Wow!

    I like the obverse on the Silver but on the $5 gold the eagle's feet don;t look correct for the position of the body.

    How about a $5 reverse on a $1 dollar obverse?

    Whatever I'll order one for my Modern commemorative collection.
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  • Rupert305Rupert305 Posts: 557 ✭
    I'm sure i'll end up buying one of each. Maybe a few more on the $1 silver.
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  • MoneyCollectorMoneyCollector Posts: 454 ✭✭✭
    I like the $5 but what's up with that chicken on the back of the $1? LOL image
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  • KipKip Posts: 852
    I think I will pass on anything silver from the mint until the milk spot problem is addressed by someone.
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  • CoinHuskerCoinHusker Posts: 5,034 ✭✭✭
    Would someone be kind enough to post the pics of the gold obv and rev. I can't get the mint link to work. image

    Thanks
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  • OPAOPA Posts: 17,160 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>I think I will pass on anything silver from the mint until the milk spot problem is addressed by someone. >>




    I believe the "milk spot" problem primarily affects the ASE's..I've never had a milk spot problem with the silver commem coins.
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  • 53BKid53BKid Posts: 2,181 ✭✭✭
    That's a lot of eagles.

    The designs look pretty good at first glance. A new concept certainly on the obverse of the half dollar.
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  • Musky1011Musky1011 Posts: 3,934 ✭✭✭✭
    I have to get one of those silver dollars for a pocket piece

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  • pendragon1998pendragon1998 Posts: 2,070 ✭✭✭
    Just what America needs - another coin with an eagle on it. Thank goodness the Mint thought of something creative for a change!

    These have got to be the ugliest, most uninspired coins to be vomited forth by the mint yet. They're an embarrassment - particularly the excuses they have for the reverse images on the $1 and $5.

    Anyone with knowledge of the breeding biology of Bald Eagles will wince when they see the image of the obverse on the (clad!) half dollar. It depicts two fuzzy little chicks in a nest with an egg in the foreground. Nice to think about the smaller chick (or chicks) being pecked to death by its broodmates and pushed out of the nest. Usually the third chick just flat out starves.



    << <i>Birds of North America Online: Hatching asynchrony and differential growth leads to differential mass in siblings, facilitating competition and fratricide (Bortolotti 1986a). Sibling competition and mortality is greatest early in nestling period, when size differences are greatest (Bortolotti 1986a). Third-hatched chicks in Saskatchewan nests received little food and usually starved. In 1 nest, mass of 9-d-old, 8-d-old, and 6-d-old siblings were 477, 260, and 80 g, respectively (Gerrard and Bortolotti 1988). >>




    Also, the presence of these poor chicks, alone in the nest, is alarming. Where's the mother bird? They're incapable of thermoregulating at this age, so if Mom's away, they'll likely die of exposure soon. She's normally on the nest nearly constantly for the first month.



    << <i>Birds of North America Online: Adult (usually female) broods constantly during inclement and otherwise cool weather until about 4 wk of age (Stalmaster 1987, Gerrard and Bortolotti 1988). In Minnesota, during 4 d of observation, young were brooded, on average, 85% of daylight period during first week after hatching, with female brooding 65% of time and male 35% of the time (Fraser 1981). >>




    Might I also add, what the heck are these coins supposed to commemorate?



    << <i>Dictionary.com:
    Commemorative

    2. (of a coin, medal, or postage stamp) issued to commemorate a historical event, to honor the memory of a personage, etc.
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    Opinion from this birder (and ornithology student): Two talons down.
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  • TommyBTommyB Posts: 676
    That reverse on the $1 is a killer for me. God awful ugly. Looks like a cross between an Eagle and a chicken.
  • rgl1345rgl1345 Posts: 674
    Where in the hell do these people go for art instruction? "Stickfigure U"?
  • FountainheadFountainhead Posts: 956
    It says it's "Line Art", not a real photograph.
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  • commoncents05commoncents05 Posts: 10,099 ✭✭✭
    With these and the space coins, I might actually buy something from the mint this next year.

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  • cullenbryantcullenbryant Posts: 1,794
    i'd like to save up for the $5 proof and possibly $1 proof.
    this is going to be another quick sellout on the silver, thanks for posting the info.
  • lonelyplonelyp Posts: 1,634
    I might be up to 1 set, do you know how they will do sets? I mean:
    Gold and Silver Proof, Gold and Silver MS, or each denomination seperate.


    I also think I would like a 22k Sac. This linked page is the first I've seen of 22k Sacs. Have they had them all along and I never knew?
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    the dozen 22k sacagawea's are the ones that went up in the space shuttle, and tie into the cheerios story.
  • TrustNo1TrustNo1 Posts: 1,359 ✭
    these look better than some designs of late.....why is that one chicken scared though? image
  • ModernCrapNutModernCrapNut Posts: 2,086 ✭
    I'll have to pass on this one. I'll be out of the country from mid-Jan. until mid-March and even the slow shipping from the mint would be quicker than that.


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  • 7Jaguars7Jaguars Posts: 7,976 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Hey if you look carefully at the expressions of the eagles on the 5 D. and dollar, they look STUPID and ANGRY, sort of constipated with a bad attitude!
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  • IrishMikeIrishMike Posts: 7,737 ✭✭✭
    The gold looks ok, but someone laid an egg on the obverse of the half. image

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