5 Ounce Silver Quarter From The Mint

Sunshine Minting, Inc. can only provide the US Mint with a maximum of 500,000 blanks, neither a start date nor a price has been set yet.

Here's to hoping my local dealer will get me one of these - and that he'll be around for the next 11 years. Somehow I'm thinking that the value of these will be much greater as a set than as the sum of its parts.

Current American Silver Eagles are 2.98mm thick - by my calculation these coins will be almost 4.23mm thick. The diameter of the ASE is 40.6mm and the diameter of these coins will be 76.2mm.

So it will be 25% thicker than an ASE and a little less than twice the diameter. Relatively thin - yes. Easily bendable - I'm not so sure. They'll bend easier than an ASE, but I don't think too many people will be accidentally bending them with their bare hands.

I heard that too - and wondered why they just didn't put the edge lettering in the collar like the Presidential dollars. What do I know though? Very little news has come out on these that I can find.

captainkurt, you're correct - I should have been more clear. What I meant was - they should do it the way they do the proof Presidential dollars. Those have a three-part collar which incuses the lettering into the edge of the coin when the coin is struck. Business strike coins have the lettering added afterward.

I thought a silver shortage was reason the mint stopped making the silver proof eagles. This new product seems to contradict this. Was I misinformed as to why proof eagles were discontinued?

Waredu, That is interesting! I didn't know that the proofs had a different process. I got my proof set yesterday and I was thinking to myself, how did they do this without scratching the coin? Now I know, and knowing is half the battle! (I miss GI Joe...)

P.S. - here is a bit more reading on the topic of the 5 oz.'ers
https://goccf.com/t/66775#66775

My understanding is that they are going to use the segmented collar for the lettered edge. It isn't practical for something like the business strike Presidential dollars because of the high speeds needed to make the huge number of pieces. But for the much smaller coinage and slower speeds needed for the 3 inch cons it should work fine.