Liberty Bell Gold Coin Release

What are these issues? Can you post a link so those of us out of the loop can see them?

I assume they're talking about the bell-shaped gold one ounce and half-ounce semiquincentennial coins: https://www.usmint.gov/coins/coin-p...hiladelphia/

They're asking for, what, almost 5x bullion value as the initial retail price? It's very rare that a coin with such a huge premium does well on the secondary market. It's also rare that coins celebrating a specific event maintain their high value once the celebrations are done and forgotten. Let's look at it this way: did the 1976 bicentennial commemorative coins enjoy any kind of special premium right now, as the 250th anniversary came and went? I haven't noticed any such. So there's no reason to presume that these 250th coins will gain a sudden surge in value when the tricentennial rolls around in 2076, and not even a super-low mintage can counteract this.

Maybe I'll be proved wrong, and jingoism will win out over cold hard logic. But the fundamentals just don't look promising.

I like the idea but I think the price ultimately hinders these. I will most likely never see one and definitely will not ever have the money to purchase one. In my mind thats a coin that doesn't exist. There are other coins that meet those criteria but they weren't minted specifically for that purpose so I find these a little different. It could have been a lot more fun.

ridiculous