2019 Apollo 11 Commems - Released January 24th, 2019

I am old enough to remember watching the moon landing in 1969. As such I purchased one example of each coin in both proof and uncirculated versions. This includes the half dollar, silver dollar and five dollar gold pieces. Along with that was the five ounce one dollar coin and the two half dollar (Kennedy and clad commemorative). Buying the fiftieth anniversary commemorative coins and remembering when that happened...must have a few years under the belt. They are beautiful coins, albeit somewhat expensive. 2019 only comes around once.

Well, someone must have been interested as the both products are currently on back order until 9/6. We should find out the first week of sales data tomorrow.

This product isn't listed on the Mint's 2019 Pricing of Numismatic Gold, Commemorative Gold, Platinum, and Palladium Products (although it should be ). It will be interesting to see if the price varies as the price of the Au proof coin + $19, or if it somehow remains a constant $479.50

Well that didn't happen. The August 11th sales report has been posted but these 2 products aren't listed

I guess they were such an afterthought that the Mint even forgot to add them to the sales report or maybe this is a BEP product and will never be reported in the Mint's sales figures

The proof half eagle in the Apollo 11 50th Anniversary 2019 Proof $5 Gold Coin and Kennedy-Apollo 11 Intaglio Print product (19XA1) is part of the 50K mintage limit for the Apollo half eagles. The "normal" proof and mint state coins have a current combined mintage of 42,014. So, there are "only" 7,986 potential sales remaining across all three products.

For label collectors, the proof half eagle from the 19XA1 product may prove to be a sleeper IF the TPGs have a separate label for it. May be doubtful since it looks like this product is just a combination of the "normal" proof half eagle packaged with the print

Someone woke up at the Mint. This set is now priced as the half eagle proof price + $19 and Monday's (8/19/19) Federal Register has an announcement saying that will be the price from now on. So, no more discount

Just received an email from the Mint saying that the 5 oz. dollars are back in stock if anyone wants to order at this point.

Good thing I bought them to have, not to profit.

Has anyone else noticed that these seem to be popping up all over the place?

Possibly because they are no longer available from the mint now but I'm seeing them in adds, commercials and even saw a whole hour of guys trying to sell the 5oz in PR70. I am also seeing quite a few on the auction sites and coming in at low prices. I picked up a $1 PR70 for $60 but have seen a few go for less than that.

All I know is it took me quite a while to score an ungraded $1 proof for anything close to a sane price (for me, anyway). I hope to share a pic just for the record.

;-)