Updates American Liberty 2016 Silver Medal?

I think the thing that bothers me most about the low mintage is that it was so much lower that the mintage of the 2015 gold high-relief coin that these medals are based on. That just seems completely backwards. I missed out just because I forgot, recently moved from TX to CA and am still not used to mint products coming on-line at 09:00AM. I will pick them up after-market and just take the price hit to complete the series (already have the gold version).

There was some speculation a few pages back that the low mintage of these medals may have been due in part to the fact that they use the same planchets for these as for the ASEs.

I think that if they could spare 25,000 they could have spared 50,000.

Medals received by NGC on Wednesday...graded and shipped today

Sure. They are going to stamp them as ASE, they can do the medals the same.

Ok...here's one for the label haters. Get this:

Here is a COMPLETED SALE for a "First Day of Issue" version of the medals..and we know how rare first day of issue coins are (all of them that presently exist)

So this distinct rarity sold for a reasonable price I guess:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/2016-W-S-AM...AOSw-kdXx0uR

Remember...someone actually paid this. Reinforces my motto: "Don't sell 'em what you want, sell 'em what THEY want"

WOW. I think I'll list my (not graded) 2nd set of S&W as "First Day of Issue" and see what happens.

And there were EIGHTEEN bidders with SIXTY bids. So either it was a shill party or there were a lot of folks that really, really wanted to throw away that much money.

Now, I can understand getting caught up in the excitement of a bidding war and spending more than you had planned on an auction, but that's just crazy.