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mythmyth Posts: 280
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looks like we get to see the choice now

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    WalmannWalmann Posts: 2,806 ✭
    Ugh, let it be a low mintage issue.
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    GoldbullyGoldbully Posts: 18,597 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Ah yes, the old PC diversity reverse!
    Gotta love that Eagle Privy Mark!
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    WalmannWalmann Posts: 2,806 ✭
    Perhaps this is the Mints way of making sure the series will be killed.
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    TomBTomB Posts: 23,330 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I don't think this will coin well.
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    ttownttown Posts: 4,472 ✭✭✭
    The American Eagle One-Ounce Platinum Proof Coin will be struck at the United States Mint at West Point. Mintage is limited to 8,000 units

    Orders will be limited to five units per household.
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    notwilightnotwilight Posts: 12,864 ✭✭✭
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    TheRavenTheRaven Posts: 4,172 ✭✭✭✭
    An absolutely horrible piece of S&#$ design.....

    I am glad they are only making a 1 oz proof of this coin, so I don't have to waste money extending my 1/10 oz run....
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    ManorcourtmanManorcourtman Posts: 8,499 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Double yuck!!
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    coasterfancoasterfan Posts: 1,302 ✭
    FAIL. image
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    notwilightnotwilight Posts: 12,864 ✭✭✭
    deleted...--Jerry
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    WalmannWalmann Posts: 2,806 ✭


    << <i>Are there any "diverse" members of the forum here that want to step forward and say they like it? --Jerry >>



    Diverse members?

    I was raised that a person's outward appearance, heritage, or religious denomination was never an indicator that they were a good or bad person.

    True diversity lies in each individual's thoughts and beliefs, not being classified as part of a group.

    I find it somewhat sad and yet amusing how those that claim tolerance for diversity are often intolerant toward individuals that have views that are very diverse from their own.
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    MilesWaitsMilesWaits Posts: 5,604 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>The American Eagle One-Ounce Platinum Proof Coin will be struck at the United States Mint at West Point. Mintage is limited to 8,000 units

    Orders will be limited to five units per household. >>



    Good...8,000 units that will be minted until sold out with numbers significantly higher than the key years; thus, no pressure to buy the design!

    Miles
    Now riding the swell in PM's and surf.
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    GritsManGritsMan Posts: 2,599 ✭✭✭
    I don't like it either, but there were worse alternatives, weren't there? Does having the Asian-American in the top spot indicate who controls most of our nation's debt?

    Not buying.
    Winner of the Coveted Devil Award June 8th, 2010
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    GoldbullyGoldbully Posts: 18,597 ✭✭✭✭✭
    What the reverse needs is a bust of Don "Mr. Warmth" Rickles in that diverse group.
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    keepdachangekeepdachange Posts: 1,374
    That's actually down a couple notches from the State Quarter Spoons
    "If you hit a midget on the head with a stick, he turns into 40 gold coins." - Patty Oswalt
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    secondrepublicsecondrepublic Posts: 2,619 ✭✭✭
    somehow it reminds me of socialist realism. Not in a good way.
    "Men who had never shown any ability to make or increase fortunes for themselves abounded in brilliant plans for creating and increasing wealth for the country at large." Fiat Money Inflation in France, Andrew Dickson White (1912)
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    KablemodemKablemodem Posts: 466

    I wonder if the same half wit that chose the 2010 Lincoln reverse also chose this design. This is an insult to the artists who went through the trouble to submit beautiful designs.
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    nycounselnycounsel Posts: 1,229 ✭✭
    It looks like the disembodied eagle head is thinking "WTF?"
    Dan
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    renman95renman95 Posts: 7,037 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I like the flowing hair...looks art nouveau-ish.

    They missed one person in this more perfect union, where's the fat white coin collector?

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    metalmeistermetalmeister Posts: 4,633 ✭✭✭✭✭
    The US Mint has tried to be P.C.
    It doesn't work IMHO.
    I do like the flowing hair on the bottom halfimage
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    notwilightnotwilight Posts: 12,864 ✭✭✭


    << <i>I like the flowing hair...looks art nouveau-ish. They missed one person in this more perfect union, where's the fat white coin collector? >>



    Heterosexual white males are not represented in a diverse culture. --Jerry
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    nycounselnycounsel Posts: 1,229 ✭✭
    They missed one person in this more perfect union, where's the fat white coin collector?

    White males were excluded from this more perfect union.
    Dan
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    TheRavenTheRaven Posts: 4,172 ✭✭✭✭
    Why have a white male? they are only the coin collectors who purchase nearly all these coins.....
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    nycounselnycounsel Posts: 1,229 ✭✭
    Why have a white male? they are only the coin collectors who purchase nearly all these coins.....

    That's the problem with decisions by committee.

    This "perfect union" coin design is a race-based slap in the face to 95% of the folks who would buy this coin.

    I find the generic, stereotyped features of the representative groups depicted equally offensive. Seriously, an Indian in braids with a feather in his hair?? I also don't understand why they apparently excluded hispanics from their "perfect union" melting pot. I guess they couldn't make room for a Mexican sombrero? What a terrible design.
    Dan
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    OPAOPA Posts: 17,175 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Ugly & expensive coin .... based on Plat spot of $1,450+ .... it's gonna cost $1,792 per coin. (The coin is so artistic unacceptable, it has a chance of becoming the key coin in the Plat series.image)
    "Bongo drive 1984 Lincoln that looks like old coin dug from ground."
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    tincuptincup Posts: 5,485 ✭✭✭✭✭
    For the past month, I was wondering whether I would be purchasing the proof plat. Looks like the US Mint has made that decision easy for me.

    My cash will be better spent elsewhere.
    ----- kj
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    tincuptincup Posts: 5,485 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Even though many will not purchase this coin because of the poor design..... it will still sell enough that it will not be a lower mintage than the 2008 coins. The 2008 will remain on top.

    The year 2008 was the perfect storm.... a one of a kind year for low mintage.
    ----- kj
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    TwoSides2aCoinTwoSides2aCoin Posts: 45,324 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Overpriced, dumb design, and a low mintage image

    Let he who has ears, read deeper into this.
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    7over87over8 Posts: 4,733 ✭✭✭
    Not Buying.

    Even if by some "black swan" scenario this coin becomes the rarest plat known, I will rest easy I did not have ANY part of owning such a coin.

    Keep it. What were those committee members thinking?????

    Time for a new committee.
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    nycounselnycounsel Posts: 1,229 ✭✭
    Not Buying.

    Even if by some "black swan" scenario this coin becomes the rarest plat known, I will rest easy I did not have ANY part of owning such a coin.

    Keep it. What were those committee members thinking?????

    Time for a new committee.

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    Dan
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    renman95renman95 Posts: 7,037 ✭✭✭✭✭
    This could be the "Jackie Robinson" of the plat series.

    I can't stick my neck out on this new series. Too pricey.

    If there were fractionals.....maybe(?)
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    tincuptincup Posts: 5,485 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I just don't see much of a chance of a super low mintage on this. They have announced 8,000 max.... and if the past is any indication, will probably keep selling it at least for a year. The coins are probably all minted already. When we get closer to the end of the one year period, and mintages are still super low... there will be an increase in purchases with the hope it will be the next Jackie Robinson.... thus assuring it will not be the low mintage key.

    The Jackie Robinson was a sleeper 'niche' coin. This PC plat is a 'generic' PC theme, just like the segregation silver dollar. Remember how everyone thought that would be a bust, and low mintage? Not by a long shot..... ......... course it was a lot cheaper than this plat will be.

    Certainly... the plat bears keeping an eye on. But I just don't see much potential in it. Unless.... hmmm..... a first strike label perhaps?
    ----- kj
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    jmski52jmski52 Posts: 24,040 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I think that this design is a slap in the face to anyone who thinks that race and gender shouldn't matter. Liberals are the ones who should be most offended.
    Q: Are You Printing Money? Bernanke: Not Literally

    I knew it would happen.
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    relicsncoinsrelicsncoins Posts: 8,336 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I guess this represents the "change" that everyone voted for.
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    GoldbullyGoldbully Posts: 18,597 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>I guess this represents the "change" that everyone voted for. >>



    So much change that I've given up on the "hope" part!
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    nycounselnycounsel Posts: 1,229 ✭✭
    ...
    Dan
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    LongshotLongshot Posts: 353


    << <i>They missed one person in this more perfect union, where's the fat white coin collector?

    White males were excluded from this more perfect union. >>



    Thats why its more perfect, right?
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    LongshotLongshot Posts: 353


    << <i>Why have a white male? they are only the coin collectors who purchase nearly all these coins.....

    That's the problem with decisions by committee.

    This "perfect union" coin design is a race-based slap in the face to 95% of the folks who would buy this coin.

    I find the generic, stereotyped features of the representative groups depicted equally offensive. Seriously, an Indian in braids with a feather in his hair?? I also don't understand why they apparently excluded hispanics from their "perfect union" melting pot. I guess they couldn't make room for a Mexican sombrero? What a terrible design. >>



    LOL, you guys are cracking me up.
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    drfishdrfish Posts: 955 ✭✭✭✭
    all you neocons can knock off the political bs-this coin was designed and approved long before our current President was elected
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    KablemodemKablemodem Posts: 466


    << <i>all you neocons can knock off the political bs-this coin was designed and approved long before our current President was elected >>



    He could have stopped it!!! image
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    jmski52jmski52 Posts: 24,040 ✭✭✭✭✭
    all you neocons can knock off the political bs-this coin was designed and approved long before our current President was elected

    Nobody even mentioned whats-his-name, or did I somehow miss it in all the excitement?
    Q: Are You Printing Money? Bernanke: Not Literally

    I knew it would happen.
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    drfishdrfish Posts: 955 ✭✭✭✭
    I guess you haven't been following all the threads on this forum-He was too busy stopping the proof and burnished American silver eagle program
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    jmski52jmski52 Posts: 24,040 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I guess you haven't been following all the threads on this forum-He was too busy stopping the proof and burnished American silver eagle program

    Really? I wouldn't put it past him. I thought it was Moy, "the incompetant one" that stopped those programs.

    I'm not sure how you decided to start calling some of the posters here neocons? Care to elaborate? Is that a derogatory term for you?
    Q: Are You Printing Money? Bernanke: Not Literally

    I knew it would happen.
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    GATGAT Posts: 3,146 ✭
    Yuck and double yuck I wouldn't want it at any price. Just means I have more Dollars for beauiful British Britannia Sets.
    USAF vet 1951-59
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    notwilightnotwilight Posts: 12,864 ✭✭✭


    << <i>all you neocons can knock off the political bs-this coin was designed and approved long before our current President was elected >>




    That would very much surprise me. Do you have a link or are you making this up? It was just released. --Jerry
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    GoldbullyGoldbully Posts: 18,597 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>

    << <i>all you neocons can knock off the political bs-this coin was designed and approved long before our current President was elected >>




    That would very much surprise me. Do you have a link or are you making this up? It was just released. --Jerry >>



    Jerry, I find it curious that drfish can spot a neocon(s) on a coin forum.
    What's a neocon anyway? Did he mean neocoin??
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    BECOKABECOKA Posts: 16,972 ✭✭✭
    So many posts,

    Am I the only one that actually kinda likes it?

    Although I'd rather have a nice liberty/eagle design.
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    drfishdrfish Posts: 955 ✭✭✭✭
    That would very much surprise me. Do you have a link or are you making this up? It was just released. --Jerry

    go back about 100 pages in Eric's epic moderns post(somewhat of an exagerration-but the designs were revealed/discussed a long time ago and the current official choice is the same as rumored official choice then) neocoin -that's perfect!
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    GoldbullyGoldbully Posts: 18,597 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Future American Eagle Platinum Proof coin reverses will feature the following themes:

    2010 - To Establish Justice
    2011 - To Insure Domestic Tranquility
    2012 - To Provide for the Common Defense
    2013 - To Promote General Welfare
    2014 - To Secure the Blessings of Liberty to Ourselves and our Posterity

    Can you imagine the future reverse designs of the final 5 Preamble principles??? image

    My mind is racing!!!

    I got one for 2010, to establish justice.....Dirty Harry wielding his 44 magnum! image
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    NitroCruiserNitroCruiser Posts: 654


    << <i>Yuck and double yuck I wouldn't want it at any price. Just means I have more Dollars for beauiful British Britannia Sets. >>



    GAT haven't you heard? They are putting a Pakistani shop keeper on the 2010 Britannia to show the UK's diversity. image

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