Hall Of Fame Curved Coins

I buy the new releases as they come out, usually within a day or two of their release. Their authorized maximum mintages and/or their potential popularity do not factor into my buying decisions. I'm a commemorative collector and enjoy keeping my clad, silver and gold sets current. As I've stated numerous times here on CCF, I believe the modern US commemorative coins should be "collected" not "invested in." Just MHO!

I do think, however, that there is a chance for the gold coins â€" even if they sell out â€" to show and sustain an increased value in the secondary market. I could be wrong, of course, but the level of "ink" that the coins have gotten in the mainstream press should result in higher sales than the most recent gold commemoratives and could impact lasting demand.

Yes, I got the "introductory pricing" offer in the male Saturday but I'm not at all happy with the costs. The dollar and half-dollar coins are priced more than three times what I was hoping for when I first heard of the items being made by the mint. I am going to pass.

I'm afraid you had very unrealistic expectations. The prices of the new coins are in line with recent commemorative releases by the Mint.

Just FYI: These discounts are nothing new, the Mint offers them for all new commemorative coin issues. They were also announced on the Mint's web site last week (except for the gold coin pricing).

Commems we clearly have different collecting objectives. I cannot use your approach to collecting so many commemorative coins because I do not have the money if you include the gold coins or a few of the exclusive early commemorative coins in high grades, nor do I feel comfortable paying the exceptionally high premiums for quality early US commemorative coins and I fundamentally do not support a few of the organizations of both early and modern commemorative coins. So I knew from the start that trying to get every commemorative coin wasn't going to happen.

To use a baseball card analogy here, my coin collecting goals do not include having boxes and albums full of common cards when I could have spotted the Hall of Famers at an early stage by staying informed with the hobby. I just do not want to throw money on the common cards that I could have thrown money into the Hall of Famers. That's why I'm here, to learn about coins and stay on top of what people are thinking about Mint offerings.

But as for your opinion that modern commemorative should be collected rather than invested in, I have to disagree with you. Just look at last year's gold MacArthur offerings, we knew that coin's potential late in year while it was still available from the Mint. Now is the best time to buy, but selectively.

So if silver was back to $4.05 an ounce like in late 2001 what would the price of the silver dollar be and the price of the clad half since there is no precious metal in it?

I am curious how much the mint plays the precious metal markup game vs pure profit on clad.

I remember buying a silver and clad set Statue of Liberty set was something like $25-30 when silver was something like $5 an ounce or so in ‘86 and the gold commemorative was something like $150.

Doug provided a very good site to look that information up called moderncommeratives

You can look up the initial offering prices of commemorative coins and some background info there.