Looking For Input On The Baseball Hof Coin

The short answer would be yes and no.

The limit itself generally doesn't mean a ton, but the fact that they put one on it shows they expect this to be a very popular coin which it should be.

No commem has gotten the type of press this one has in a long long time if ever. Like mentioned its the first curved coin which also has a very pleasing design from a subject matter thats very popular.

The potential is certainly there being one of the few coins with the ability to draw in non commemorative collectors and really non collectors in general. That said the mintage limits for most are still high, but the 2001 buffalo ended with a high mintage for the series and its still going strong price wise.

We'll see, but the silver HOF coins look like another hype coin like the Reverse Buffalo and the Westpoint ASE set of last year of which both in government packaging or graded 69 have small premiums today.

Even the gold HOF commemorative issues might not be a good option to buy either because the average collector isn't going to put down $425 on a gold commemorative. That's been shown the last few years with the dwindling gold commemorative mintage numbers. So if the gold HOF sells out I'm guessing its coming from dealers looking to flip them and if it sells out, it'll be one of the highest minted gold coins in many years from the Mint.

The Civil Rights coin has sold 45k proofs and nearly 19k in uncirculated coins in only 3 months of being available but the sales numbers have dwindled to only a few hundred every week. If you're looking for a silver commemorative for solely investment purposes, I'd probably look at the Civil Right Coins than the HOF coins, but let's give it time and see what develops.

I disagree with that. Mintage is an overrated aspect of value. The Civil Rights coin like the Girl Scouts will be one that mainly series collectors get. The number of people that just get that one or non collectors will be minimal at best.

The 2001 buffalo commems have some of the highest mintages of the series with well over 200k of each version sold, but they have a huge premium.

High interest items generally perform better from a price standpoint. Otherwise gold spouse coins would have massive premiums with their mintages

Penny - if this was the end of the year and both coins were still available to purchase... I might see buying the CRA coin over the HOF coins. That is about the only way I could see trying to decide which might have a better resell value.

That said, the CRA coin will be for sale for the rest of the year and has been dramatically under performing so far and the HOF coin is going on sale later today and has drawn so much response from the buying public that the mint has put buying limits on them before they go on sale... so I would probably lean heavily towards buying one now and not waiting until December to see which might be the better buy. The HOF coin is the 1st of its kind for the US Mint - has been heavily advertised - and has a large target consumer public to draw from. Add to the fact baseball season starts next week and surely word of mouth will spread... I expect the gold to sell out relatively quickly and silver to follow in a short period after that.

Also - the 350,000 Boy Scouts silver coins...sold out in 30 days, not over the course of a year. The 2001 Buffalo sold out in 2 weeks, and the 2009 Lincoln coin sold out in about 45 days. There is a history of sellouts in commemoratives.

If nothing else - I think we will get to see how the mints waiting room and new cart system work later today.

Ok... the waiting room isn't all that. Hit the mint site and at noon - it sent me to the waiting room with a 30 some odd minute wait... and then went up over 50 minutes...and still not in to order. The coins are all back ordered already as well.

Well... this is no fun at all. Mints site froze - locked my computer and I ended up after sitting for about 10 minutes - having to reboot. Lost my order and the mints phone line drops when you call...nice.

All the commemoratives have values. They need a value assigned to be a coin and not a medal. When its just a medal very few people care but put a face value on it and call it a coin and interest sky rockets.