What If The US Mint Produced A 2009 American Silver Eagle Proof?

Gary, My Pleasure......Now, Let the Games Begin, !!!!!

That is a great point, commems. Next would be a restrike of 1995 W and 2019 S ERP.

Unintentional as it may have been, destabilization happened to the 1889 S Morgan dollar. Once thought to be the rarest of Morgans, quickly changed when a hoard of 1889 S was released from the S mint storage vaults in the late 1930's, early 40's. Very quickly turning the rarest Morgan of the day, into a relatively common Morgan. I for one would not want this. Especially if I paid hundreds to thousands of dollars for what was once considered a rare coin, only to be restruck, watering down the value.

As a Collector I Love this Topic Too, Just Another Thought, I see Previously discussed What If's, besides the O P 's ........


I agree the Morgan silver dollars from 1878 thru the 1921, Those Originally Designed By George Morgan, Were NOT Re-Minted, they were Re-Produced Differently, NOT the same designs.....

The 1969 CAMARO's were an Amazingly Sharp Looking, Small, Extremely Fast Car.
The design was Later Re-Produced Differently, Not the Same Designs, BUT, the Look is Awesome, just the same. I mean, I Never thought I would like a Car, Truck or Motorcycle of the 50's, 60's or the 1970's, Re-Manufactured or Re-Produced The Same Model, or a Super Close look ... The Dodge HEMI Challengers, the Dodge HEMI Chargers, WOW !!!!


So to say the 2009 ASE West Point Minted Coin may be, Who knows, I do know, Plenty of Collectors will be Right There, side by side, Hunting for the Next, Mint Marked American Silver Eagle.

I see what you mean looking over what was released in 2021- several of the coins only had one choice on some but not others for collectors below. At minimum seems they missed a lot of sales potential but its all silver they may not have the planchets to make during that period. I guess we can add that to the list of govmint reproduction coins to ask to make. ...unless you have some plutonium, a delorean, and a flux capacitor to go back in time back to the future style....

2021 T1 Bullion
2021 T2 Bullion

2021-W T1 Proof
2021-W T2 Proof

2021-W T1 Reverse Proof no -W T2 Reverse Proof

2021-S T2 Reverse Proof no -S T1 Reverse Proof

2021-S T2 Proof no -S T1 Proof

2021-W T2 Burnished no -W T1 Burnished

In 2009, The U S Mint was making the Newest Versions of The Lincoln Memorial Cents, to Celebrate the 200 TH Birthday of Our 16TH President, with the Abe Lincoln New 4 Reverses, Traded up the Designs for the Rot Away Composition .... 1909 To 2009.


They had No Tim to Make the 2009 ASE Mint Marked Unc's.................

@Dearborn, The actual reason I posted a few posts up - starts "General info for those that dont know about the 2009 missing proof:"




Mike, just a quick side note to your comment. The primarily copper cent was changed to a primarily zinc cent in 1982 and has remain that way ever since which is what you refer to. The general circulation coins for 2009 do contain the same base zinc metal composition as the Memorial cent, which is comprised of 97.5% zinc and 2.5% copper. However some special 2009 cents contain the original copper coin metal composition actually that they had in 1909, which contained 95% copper and 5% Tin and Zinc.

The proof 2009 Lincoln Cent designs were struck with a mirror finish in the fields with frosted features. They were struck on solid 95% copper bronze planchets, just like the original 1909 Lincoln Cent. 95% Copper, 5% Tin and Zinc. The proof 2009-S Lincoln cents were only available in the 18-coin 2009 Proof Set, made at the San Francisco Mint - Mintage:
2,995,615

The satin-finish 2009 Lincoln cents were only issued as part of the 2009 Uncirculated coin sets. These sets used special burnished dies to give a satin finish to the fields on each coin.

The 2009 Uncirculated coin set comprised 36 coins, double the number in the Proof sets. These sets featured all 18 coin designs and denominations issued in 2009 for both the Philadelphia and Denver Mints. The eight different Lincoln cents issued in the set were of significance because they were composed of 95% copper alloy, 3% zinc and 2% tin. (95% Copper, 5% Tin and Zinc). This metal composition was last used on Lincoln cents from 1909-1942. The Mint sold approximately 771,204 sets of the 2009 Uncirculated Mint Sets, which means that the Satin Finish 2009 Lincoln cents now have the second-lowest mintage in the Lincoln Cent series (for non-proof coins that are composed of mostly copper alloy). The four different 2009 Satin Finish Lincoln cents have an even lower mintage than the 1931-S Lincoln Cent!

David, for you, it's John, and I was joking in response to Mike's joke.

Let me just run this past everyone to make sure I understand the 2009 situation, and this is sort of a compilation of various articles I have read.
The economy was in the dumpster about this time. I believe this was referred to as the housing market bubble, had more to do with the banks than anything else, the "jumbo" loans coming due and financial stuff like that, that I don't really get in to.
Anyways, everything financially was going south and people were turning to precious metals. A lot.
So the demand was high for silver and especially ASEs.
The mint was getting planchets mainly from Sunshine Mint, and believe it or not, the US Mint isn't even their biggest customer. And they had a ton of private mints needing planchets. So Sunshine couldn't keep up with demand. The Mint even used a couple alternative refineries to get planchets.
Ultimately the mint decided to forget about the collectors and just keep up with demand for the bullion that year, which they felt they were legally obligated to do via the Liberty Coin Act of 1985.