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Moderator
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Thank you for posting the article. It was a worthwhile read.  |
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Bedrock of the Community
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Great article! Thanks for posting.
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New Member
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Just curious to know if anyone here took up any of the dealers on their offer to buy the Amer. Liberty medal for the dealer in exchange for some cash?
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Nope. I am keeping both of mine.  |
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Pillar of the Community
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If the mint is going to issue both ASE and these medals annually I think the medals would have a better success if the reverse changed every year like the platinum Eagles do (not sure why they didn't do the same with the bullion issues) |
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Bedrock of the Community
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I'm waiting for any dealer to approach me for mine. Not really; wouldn't sell anyway. Just saying.
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CCF Master Historian of USA Commemoratives
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Quote:If the mint is going to issue both ASE and these medals annually I think the medals would have a better success if the reverse changed every year Both the obverse and reverse designs of the silver medal are expected to change each year. The medals will adopt the designs of the annual high-relief gold coin (minus the coin inscriptions) which are intended to change annually. Collecting history one coin or medal at a time! (c) commems. All rights reserved.
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Yes, the design of the Amer. Liberty silver medal is expected to change annually. A couple or so days before the medals went on sale I received e-mails from 2 separate national dealers offering to buy the medals if the recipient of the e-mails was able to buy any her/himself. I did not take these dealers up on their offers. ebay was the destination for a pair of these medals and the other pair have gone into my SDB. Edited by CoinsA-Z
09/05/2016 1:15 pm
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Pillar of the Community
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I received and read the same article, just didn't have time to post, so thanks Foxwoodman for sharing.
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Bedrock of the Community
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Both the obverse and reverse designs of the silver medal are expected to change each year. The medals will adopt the designs of the annual high-relief gold coin (minus the coin inscriptions) which are intended to change annually. What "annual high-relief gold coin" are you referring to? The U.S. Mint does not produce an annual high-relief gold coin - they're starting now? |
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CCF Master Historian of USA Commemoratives
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What "annual high-relief gold coin" are you referring to? The U.S. Mint does not produce an annual high-relief gold coin - they're starting now? The first of the "American Liberty" series of HR gold coins was released in 2015 (it featured the first use of the design seen on this year's silver medal). Addition HR coins are planned - the next will be released in 2017. Collecting history one coin or medal at a time! (c) commems. All rights reserved.
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Bedrock of the Community
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@commems: Gotcha, thanks. I'm certain everyone has the mintage numbers released last week but in case you haven't... https://www.usmint.gov/about_the_mi...sStatistics/Looks like about 560 of these silver medals remain to be sold probably for credit card mismatches and household limit violations. |
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Normally in the past if I wanted one of these remaining few hundred I would be online every day at 0730 waiting for a few to be released. But now, as evidenced by the gold dime, they just sit unsold forever (around 9000 gold dimes still unsold 4 months after release)
Not sure the remaining medals will ever be released
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I'm surprised there hasn't been anyone to post about how annoyed they are for not getting one. Am I the only one scratching my head at the 12,500 mintage limits? Is the mint trying to lose customers? Or do they get off on the idea of bragging collectors, the elite few, who got their glorious medal while the majority of collectors lost out? And the vast majority lost out mainly to....... dealers? Is this they way of it. . . . . yet again? Perhaps the mint just likes producing these frenzies from time to time. They can create a modern rarity whenever they want. I don't know how many should have been made, but it should have been at least 50,000. 12,500? Come on. Really? Was that low mintage even worth their time? It's not like they were making dealer profits on these.
When the gold coin was first released I didn't care for the design, but then it grew on me. I wish I could have nabbed these. It won't be the last time history repeats itself. I just wonder which offering I'll miss out on next time. Ok, I'll say it. I'm annoyed.
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Pillar of the Community
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Anyone who followed this thread (and other threads on different coin sites) AND made an effort to be online when they went on sale got their coins. There was one poster here that missed out because of a webpage malfunction but all others seemed to prevail. Very few reasons to be annoyed here.
As stated previously, I had three people working ONE computer at my house...I ordered two of each (separate orders even) and then logged out. My son logged in and got his two orders of two each and logged out. My neighbor logged in and got his four...all in 6-8 minutes.
If you were informed and made the effort you got your medals.If you were late to the game you didn't.
Was 12.5k realistic? No way... but I assume the Mint looked at it differently because it was a medal...or...it is the Mint after all..and they WILL go overboard on next years medal mintage.
They were not trying to create a rarity. They had no clue about the interest...key words..no clue.
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09/06/2016 10:19 am
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