25th Anniversary Sacagawea 2025 Golden Dollar 24k One Half-Ounce Gold Proof Coin

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Patrick Heller at The Numismatic News the very point some of you made regarding the commemorative gold coin being too similar to the clad $1. To a well-informed collector they will catch the difference but most will not. A silver commemorative would be very fitting as 25th anniversaries are often celebrated with silver.

It will be interesting to see how these perform long term with the mix of bullion and numismatic values. At the mintage of 7,500 coins, it will be one of the keys to the series. The Cheerios dollar and Goodacre dollars are the other two, both with mintages <= 5,000 coins.

Like the 12 surviving half ounce gold examples struck in June of 1999, to commemerate the first female U.S. astronaut to be a commander on a space shuttle flight, I don't consider these to be part of the series.

Nor do I. I feel the same way about all the other gold coins as well—Mercury, Standing Liberty, Walking Liberty, and Kennedy. They are tributes to the series, not part of them.

The series inclusion argument is stronger for the Morgan and Peace dollars of 2021 to date, and many will still not include them.

However, if anyone wants to include them to complete their sets, I will not argue against their choice. After all, I feel like no Eisenhower dollar collection is complete without the 1990, 2013, and 2015 offerings.

I am not even sure the minting of new coins will be around that long.

I think the Sacagawea are very handsome coins and pay nice tribute to our native Americans but its the premiums that drive me away and I have small confidence in gold numismatic face value coins despite their beauty and despite the current gold madness.

The exception being some of the Euro-Empire numismatics with interesting mintage years but even they take a long time to accrue investor interest and even then on a case by case preference, usually depending on the Sov represented. Lately it seems their value has been their price vis a vis their melt value and any old gold coin has that. If anything the many are hard to unload due to their defiant eccentricities.

Of course there are exceptions, most of all Yank and Brit ones but Ive seen some fine French, Spanish, Italian, and other gold Sov's that are lovely enough to have more interest then they have had. I think likely its the Kraaazy prize of gold driving this madness.

But it is what it is and there are many 1/2 oz gold coins out now that spark value in the stacking communitydue to low premiums. The Bullion Exchange, which I vouch for, has 1/2 oz Philharmonics for $1,707.74 which equate to $3,415.48 an oz. . A full oz going for $3,363.65 and a premium of $26.29 per coin which ain't bad considering gold is on an upswing.

It put 1/2 oz bullion coinage back within reach of the working stiff thru an established and popular gold coin. Even 1/2 oz Gold Eagles have stayed below insanity at $1,727.90. Lunch money above the Philharmonics.

I dont own 1/2 oz'er and am kicking myself for not buying Phil's at the dip tho even still theres a case to be made for them. They are handsome coins indeed.