Any News On The Breast Cancer Awareness Designs?

There's no way the prudes would have allowed such a blatant design. Frankly, I'm surprised they actually used the word "breast".

check out the prices on the clad halveS

It should be interesting to see how many are sold.


-MV

with that sentiment. The regular prices for the halves are crazy, especially since they feature a shared design. I expect that for the average collector, if they're going to spend that kind of money, they will probably go for the one with silver. Nevertheless, it should be interesting to follow the sales for the halves.

I would like to get at least one, but those clad half prices are not worth it. I'll get a silver dollar through someone else at a reduced price, which will almost certainly happen. I don't expect these to retain much of their original price, unfortunately.

A fair prediction.

Still don't get the association of a butterfly to breast cancer, but I do like that reverse anyway

At least the Pink gold is a clearer association than butterflies.

I would have expected 75/25 or 18 karat as the most common rose gold. 85/15 would seem to be a unique alloy. Apparently the tiny bit of zinc helps with the pinkness.

I think you can do more good at less cost by contributing 25 bucks to a recognized breast cancer charity. Instead of contributing $5 through the surcharge and covering the mint's production cost for what I see is a relatively insipid design.

I posed this question some time ago, and now that the designs have been released it can be answered.

The coin specifications from the Mint's website are that it will weigh 7.931 gm which is 5.12% less than the "normal" 8.359 gm for commemorative half eagles. By law, the diameter remains the same at .850 inches. I was hoping that the Mint would increase the coin thickness to maintain the "normal" amount of gold in a half eagle, .24187 ozt of gold, but they obviously didn't. My guess is that the thickness didn't change and the overall weight reduction is consistent with the composition change.

This "new" $5 coin (can't call it a half eagle, guess we'll have to come up with a new name) with a lower overall weight and lower percentage of gold content will only have .21674 ozt of gold, 10.4% less than a traditional half eagle gold coin.

With gold currently between $1300-$1350, if the $5 proof coin were available today its price would be $436. Last year, the price for the Boy's Town $5 commemorative with gold at this price would have been $429.75. So, that's a $6.25 (1.45%) increase for 10.4% less gold, no silver at all and 247% more in copper. Given the lower gold content, this amounts to around a 13.4% price increase for the gold proof coin. The Unc would be similar (+11.9%). Not as steep as the half dollar increases (+19.3% Unc, +17.9% Prf) and worse than the dollar increases (+10.2% Unc, +9.6% Prf).

BTW, another subtle pricing change is that the $5 proof coin is now $10 more at each pricing level than the $5 uncirculated coin. It used to be a $5 pricing difference.