A Use For Anthony Dollars

I certainly hope this doesn't count as unacceptable soliciting. I thought some here might find it amusing or intriguing.

In my space advocacy efforts, I have found that the 1979 dollar makes a useful promotional item. Most people either never paid any attention to them at all, or would tend to dismiss them out of hand. But when I draw their attention to the fact that it's dated in the tenth anniversary year of the Apollo 11 landing, & to Gasparro's adaptation of the mission patch, it suddenly becomes a lot more interesting. (I must have been one of the few people gratified when the Mint struck new SBAs in 1999, hitting the 30th anniversary.) Apparently most people never bother to notice what the designs on their coins are!



The package that you see here, combining the Anthony dollar of 1979 with a medalet of my own design (which I usually sell, in a flip with its information card, for $2), is something for which I ask $4, & people seem to find that reasonable. Not bad for something that costs me a dollar at the bank. It might fetch more if my presentation were better...

Admittedly, a similar package with a 1972 Eisenhower (year of the final Apollo landings) is more popular, even priced at $5. (Typically I wind up buying them from dealers at about $1.10, because they don't show up at the bank so often.) People are often astonished at the idea that it is a real US coin! That it's tolerably common isn't even worth saying.