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The disappointing designs and high gold price doomed these from the start. The subjects were worthy causes for private donation but just didn't stimulate the public the way the Statue of Liberty with its incredible Elizabeth Jones obverse did back in '86 (when gold commemoratives were still something of a novelty rather than overproduced mediocrity). I like the design, much better than Boys Town. ^^ @BadDog: maybe you are right, that it might become the new key date. There are several "lucky" incidents which support this coin, like other highlights of this year Apollo coins, Pride coins, 2019-S ERP ASE and no official publication of sales numbers since Nov. 3rd. It seems there was an end of year sales surge because some coins already "unavailable". We will see what the January publication of sales numbers will bring. Edited by smile4art
12/26/2019 11:23 pm
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Knowing the sals figures for the uncirculated coin were very low I decided I might buy one yesterday. Went to the mint site and, lo and behold, it's currently unavailable. I'm wondering if some large seller bought out the available stock thinking they might promote it as a low mintage coin. I'm not disappointed. Que sera, sera.
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The most recent sales data has the uncirculated half eagle being the new low mintage coin. As reported by Coin World: Quote:
Sales totals through Dec. 31 were recorded as:
#10148; Single Proof 2019-W gold $5 coin, 3,191.
#10148; Single Uncirculated 2019-W gold $5 coin, 2,929.
#10148; Single Proof 2019-P silver dollar, 44,022.
#10148; Single Uncirculated 2019-P silver dollar, 13,790.
#10148; Single Proof clad 2019-S half dollar, 18,812.
#10148; Single Uncirculated 2019-D half dollar, 11,430.
#10148; American Legion Proof Silver Dollar and Medal set, 9,888, maximum release 10,000.
#10148; American Legion three-coin set (one each of the Proof gold $5 coin, silver dollar, and copper-nickel clad half dollar), 7,451. |
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thanks CollegeBarbers
So we have a new king for modern commemorative coins, the Legion gold UNC with 2929.
Boys Town gold UNC has 2947 coins sold.
As mentioned before I believe the Legion coin had exceptional reasons being so low, like no publication of sales numbers since Nov. 3rd and the Apollo series.
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01/04/2020 10:19 pm
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It looks like the Coin World article is reporting sales totals for particular products, and not total mintage, when it comes to the proof coins. For example, the article doesn't indicate the sales totals for US Mint products 19XA1-19XA5 which will increase the mintages for the coins included in those products. It's also unclear to me how the proof Apollo Half Dollars that were included in the various foreign mint products are being reported. The Australian product had a limit of 10,000 and the Spainish product had a limit of 5,000, so I'm guessing that 15,000 coins should be added to whatever sales the Mint eventually reports?  |
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I had placed an order for the uncirculated $5 American Legion coin after Christmas and now the mint shows the order canceled. Disappointed
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Quote:It looks like the Coin World article is reporting sales totals for particular products, and not total mintage, when it comes to the proof coins.  It appears that the sales totals in the article represent individual coins/products sold by the Mint, so the foreign products aren't included in those numbers. Quote:
I had placed an order for the uncirculated $5 American Legion coin after Christmas and now the mint shows the order canceled. Disappointed Did you receive an order confirmation when you placed your order? howell1018 mentioned earlier in this thread that the uncirculated half eagle was labeled "currently unavailable" on December 26. |
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Most BU versions were sold as single and they mostly had lower mintages than their proof versions.
if I'm not wrong for modern commemorative coins:
lowest mintage half dollar is Breast Cancer Awareness BU 11,301 (if there are no substantial returns for Legion half BU, only 129 difference)
lowest mintage $1 silver is Boys Town BU 12,234
lowest mintage $5 gold is Legion BU 2,929
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01/05/2020 8:39 pm
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My wife picked up the Apollo 11 and the American legion clad .50 cent. Otherwise I would never have gotten it. I honestly don't like the design but it looks better on the coin compared to the actual drawing. I was at the LCS and the latest commemoratives have sold very badly. He is paying spot for the dollars and less for the .50 cents. There is no interest at his store. I'm thinking long term hopefully this is the next Hawaii :)
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collegeBarber, ordered on 12-26 with a confirmation email.
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collegeBarber, ordered on 12-26 with a confirmation email. Wow, that's a shame.  I guess the Mint reserves the right to cancel an order before it charges the customer, but as you said it's still disappointing. Have you contacted the Mint about this? |
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I had placed an order for the uncirculated $5 American Legion coin after Christmas and now the mint shows the order canceled. Disappointed @muddler I hope you could purchase one. Pinehurst Coins on ebay had many perfect NGC graded and sold 43 coins alone this new year for $585 with make offer option. Now they have doubled the price to $1185 for the last remaining coins. GovMint still has raw coins for 480-495 with free shipping. Edited by smile4art
01/08/2020 9:54 pm
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I think I bought the last one from GOVMINT this morning. I tried to buy 2 but it only let me buy one. Thanks smile4art for the heads up!
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@bandsdean: great that you could buy the last one.
Now waiting for the official sales numbers from the US Mint. I think there will be some changes, because of returns... ^^
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Now it's official. Sales numbers published on US Mint site.
Slightly changes for Legion coins:
GOLD PROOF 3190
GOLD UNC 2927
SILVER PROOF 44018
SILVER UNC 13789
CLAD PROOF 18811
CLAD UNC 11430
COIN & MEDAL SET (Proof) 9888
3-COIN SET (Proof) 7451
PROOF $5 GOLD COIN AND EMBLEM PRINT 277
PROOF SILVER DOLLAR AND EMBLEM PRINT 1788
PROOF CLAD HALF DOLLAR AND EMBLEM PRINT 1026
GOLD UNC with 2927 coins sold is still lowest mintage of modern commemorative coins.
(interesting fact is by Dec. 29th 2019, 3090 gold unc coins have been sold and then many returned/cancelled with 2927 coins left)
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01/21/2020 11:47 am
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