Updates American Liberty 2016 Silver Medal?

And EVERYONED who ordered HAD to be at their computer at 12:00 noon in order to get one. They had to stop EVERYTHING in their life at noon to get their order in. It sold out in 6 minutes. Sorry, but some people can't just stop what they're doing to place an order at the US Mint's website at a particular time. I find it completely unreasonable that one simply can't come home from work on the day a product is released and place an order for one of these and get it. I guess while I was at work saving lives you all had the chance to order some. Congratulations, and you're welcome!

And I was well aware of this release even though I didn't follow this thread like a maniac.

Hahaha. Exactly!

I don't believe such sarcasm directed at others here on the forum is necessary. Let's not make things personal!

It is truly unfortunate that each of the versions of the American Liberty medal had such a low mintage. I think it surprised most collectors. Previous silver medals (Ben Franklin, National Wildlife Series and 9/11 10th Anniversary) all sold more than 12,500 each, so larger mintage limits for the American Liberty medals were definitely expected.

In case you haven't read this entire thread, the mintage figures were discussed quite a bit and several thoughts on the reason behind the low mintage figures were offered.

I don't believe the "too low" mintage limits were because the Mint is "incompetent" or that it "doesn't have a clue." The Mint runs a complex business with many competing demands for its resources -- they may not always get it right and please their collector base, but I don't believe any of its decisions are random or malevolent in nature.

I wasn't being sarcastic. When this medal went on sale I was in the middle of an intrauterine fetal transfusion procedure. Honestly, I feel no ill will toward those who were able to obtain these. I just feel frustrated for all of us who were left behind yet again because of an extremely low mintage offering.

Okay, everyone, take a deep breath.

Apparently, no one here in this forum, myself included, knows for certain what the reason is that the US Mint made the decision to make the "Product Limit" (only) 25,000 for the Amer Liberty silver medals (half produced in West Point and the other half in S.F. of course).

It's reasonable to conjecture that initially the "Mintage Limit" would be considerably higher but maybe things changed between then and now. Or maybe we will get news at some point that more of these silver medals will be produced to be included in some special annual set or something.

Either way, my impression is that there was little pre-release excitement about this medal and then seemingly out of nowhere, it's become the talk of the coin community (some angry and annoyed to not have been able to order direct from the Mint some very delighted to have been able to.....especially to have received the medals in hand and be significantly impressed with the quality as many seem to be).


I have seen no gloating by those who were able to get their direct US Mint order processed....which is a good thing.


Personally I do look very much forward to the next issue releases of the American Liberty silver medals and gold coins. I believe these products will be popular among American coin and medal collectors for the foreseeable future.

Fox- I'm not using my work as an excuse. You are missing my point entirely, but I won't explain it again. Others "get it" easily enough. Ughh. Signing off....

I get what you mean, Darth.

For what it is worth, I would still like the medals if they minted 100,000 and barely held their value a year later.

I wish the mint could have been more accommodating. I did say could, because I think it is, as indicated above, an issue with resources. The mint only has so many planchets with which to work. If they minted the medals to demand, we would likely be complaining about low ASE mintage numbers instead.