2019 Apollo 11 Commems - Released January 24th, 2019

Striking the entire mintage would be incredibly foolish by the mint, they strike what they are believe they can sell and go from there. The mintages are FAR FAR to high to be doing that and total sales have been trending lower and lower for a while now with some exceptions like the baseball and these Apollo coins mixed in.

The last commemorative to actually have a sell out is the baseball one, and even with that one it was only the gold the sold out.

The silver dollar commemoratives have only ever sold out twice with the 2001 Buffalo and the 2009 Abe Lincoln. The baseball ones came close but even they fell sort. No half has ever actually sold out that I can think of

no modern commemorative half dollar has come even close to its authorized mintage.



Although this is technically correct, the $1 Ag Baseball HOF coin is widely considered to have achieved a sold out status with 399.986 out of 400,000 (99.996%) authorized.

The 2010 Boy Scouts commemorative is also considered to have achieved a sold out status with 349,983 out of 350,000 (99.995%) authorized.

As is the 1993 Thomsas Jefferson commemorative with a mintage of 599,818 out of 600,000 (99.967%) authorized.

And the 1992 White House commemorative as well, with a mintage of 499,654 out of 500,000 (99.931%) authorized.




The 2009 Lincoln is also generally considered to be a sold out coin with a mintage of 497,224 out of 500,000 authorized (99.444%) since it exceeded 99% and Mint didn't strike the last few thousand coins.

If your criteria is that the mintage must EXACTLY equal the authorized number, then the 2001 Buffalo commemorative is the only commemorative Ag $1 to sell out, with 500,000 authorized and 500,000 sold.

I bought a few of the 1oz silver dollars and a few of the 1oz proofs. Does anyone have any idea if paying PCGS to grade and put first strike on these would increase their value by more than the 40 bucks (each) it would cost me to send them in?

Yup, all of the modern commemorative coin legislation indicates not more than mintages and sales only in the year the coins are released. Only rarely does the Mint strike close to the authorized number of coins in any denomination. It's also not unusual for the Mint to end sales before the absolute end of the year. If the coins on hand sell out close to the end of the year, it's just not worth the resources to strike a few more coins, even if they'd be able to sell them.

You'll also notice that starting with last year's BCA Ag $1 the legislation says not less than 90% Ag versus the previous 90% Ag. The Mint has recently said that they pushed Congress to make this change to give them the flexibility to use a higher Ag content. I'm guessing it's cheaper for the Mint to just use an ASE content blank and adjust the selling price, rather than have Sunshine Mint make the 90% Ag blanks.

It wouldn't surprise me if before long you see another change in commemorative legislation. One indicating the diameter of the Ag $1 to be AT LEAST 1.5 inches. That would allow the Mint to use the larger ASE blank for commemorative Ag $1s. It's probably more cost effective to use the ASE blank rather than order the 1.5 inch blanks currently used as well.

Good point....I did grab a bunch of the sets just for the Kennedy

I will admit surprise to the completed sale prices of the silver proof 70's

Essentially excessive mintage (400k total for both) but completed sales run between $160-$180 for ER/FS

I just can't see that holding but we will see...

Edit: 69's are $75-95 so kinda a wash+ and maybe worth the submission chance of a 70

HSN, Now selling the Apollo 11 100% Silver Dollar Anacs graded Proof 70 for $199.00. I wonder how they received the 3000 He is saying the lot was, to get only 2969 70's. I think the playing field is still, NOT level , with originally a house hold limit they still have these slabbed and ready to ship, in less then 12 days ..... Uncirculated MS70 $179.00 , The Clad Half Proof $129.00........ Move over fellas, the Big Boys are in town, LOL.