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US Mint Announces Designs For Coin And Medal Honoring The 75th Anniversary Of The End Of WWII

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 Posted 09/02/2020  8:19 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Reno32 to your friends list
What about the V75 quarter dollar, they showing anything to that one?
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 Posted 09/02/2020  10:20 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add machine20 to your friends list
Will buy if mintage is low enough
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 Posted 09/03/2020  01:03 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add macmercury to your friends list
I don't particularly like the design, the eagle claw doesn't appear correct in perspective, it's lacking strength overall.
The placement of the text on the reverse are not artistically professionally.
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 Posted 09/03/2020  01:20 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Alpha2814 to your friends list

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I don't particularly like the design, the eagle claw doesn't appear correct in perspective...

Wow. As much as I liked the design before I read that sentence, I can't unsee it now.
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 Posted 09/03/2020  06:04 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add bzookaj to your friends list

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The placement of the text on the reverse are not artistically professionally.

I don't like the text on the reverse. The gold looks way too crowded, while the silver looks disproportionate, like they are trying to make up for the lack of text.
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 Posted 09/03/2020  11:15 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add jbuck to your friends list

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I think the silver medal will look nice next to my American silver liberty medals
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 Posted 09/03/2020  12:29 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add xorbe to your friends list
DW and RG are the artist and sculptor on the reverse. What's the RS and PH mean on the obverse? Richard T. Scott and Phebe Ηemphill?
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 Posted 09/04/2020  06:14 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add CollegeBarbers to your friends list

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The US Code allows this in 5112.i.4.c, I think, as "other bullion and proof gold coins" as long as they meet other specified standards. The Liberty high relief issues and this year's Mayflower piece also fall into this: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/31/5112

Interesting, I was unaware of that exception. Thanks for researching it, @Alpha!

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I don't like the text on the reverse. The gold looks way too crowded, while the silver looks disproportionate, like they are trying to make up for the lack of text.

Based on the law that @Alpha referenced above, it seems that the Mint is legally required to include the additional text on the gold coin.
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 Posted 09/04/2020  06:51 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add bzookaj to your friends list

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it seems that the Mint is legally required to include the additional text on the gold coin.

I understand that, but many other coins get the info included in much better aesthetic ways. Here it looks like they just slapped it on without thinking about how it makes the reverse look as a whole.
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 Posted 09/04/2020  10:26 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add numismagic to your friends list
The text on the gold coin reverse is awfully busy. Has anyone noticed that neither the coin nor the medal has the V75 privy that we are seeing on the ATB Quarters and the yet to be released Silver Eagle?
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 Posted 09/04/2020  12:03 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add commems to your friends list

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Has anyone noticed that neither the coin nor the medal has the V75 privy that we are seeing on the ATB Quarters and the yet to be released Silver Eagle?

As the themes for the coin and medal are already the 75th anniversary of the end of WWII, neither has a need for a commemorative privy mark.

Today, mints around the world use commemorative privy marks to tie-in an otherwise generic or unrelated design to a person/place/thing/event being commemorated. This is what the US Mint is doing by adding privy marks to the AGE and ASE coins, as well as to some of the 2020 ATB Quarters. These coins do not, on their own, commemorate the end of WWII so the added privy mark is being used to tie them in to it and make them more of a commemorative piece.

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 Posted 09/06/2020  12:55 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add commems to your friends list
The US Mint's web site now lists the sale date for the WWII gold and silver pieces as November 9, 2020 at Noon (ET). Of course, no price listed as of yet.


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 Posted 09/06/2020  1:33 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add okiepb to your friends list
I think these are nice designs but I'm not a buyer for either of them.
In my opinion, unless there are limited quantities minted, the after market value of the new Mint offerings don't hold up well. I'd rather spend my money on some of the classic American coins.
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The US Mint's web site now lists the sale date for the WWII gold and silver pieces as November 9, 2020 at Noon (ET).
Calendar updated.
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Of course, no price listed as of yet.
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