Jefferson Spouse Gold Coin

Thanks for the heads up. I was able to get the first two, I hope my luck holds.

This is the one design that I am actually interested in, so I hope I can get one!

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I wonder if this will sell out even within the 1st week even with the limits or if they'll end up allowing 5 per household or whatever the 2nd week.

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With the original offering you could get either 5 or 10 of each First Spouse I believe. This time you can only get one, so you might expect the ordering period to last 5 to 10 times as long. Somewhere around 10 to 20 hours. Possibly a little less because I expect the demand for this coin to be higher than for the first two. Because of the design for one thing, and because the first two sold out so quickly and then jumped on the aftermarket. A LOT of people will be buying these planning for an immediate flip, and to some extent it will force the aftermarket price for these even higher because there will be people both collectors and dealers who will be wanting multiple pieces who will not be able to get them from the mint and will have to buy them in the marketplace.

In any case there is no way these will last to the second week and the relaxed ordering amounts.

Yes, there is also a second President that also had two first ladies (I forget which president but I think it comes up year after next) and there will be two First Spouses for that Presidency as well. That was provided for in the authorizing legislation.

"(E) DESIGN AND COIN FOR EACH SPOUSE.—A separate

coin shall be designed and issued under this section for

each person who was the spouse of a President during

any portion of a term of office of such President."

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They could do a whole limited edition series on all of Clinton's "accomplishments" Maybe even have a colourised blue dress edition

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If you're going to do that you'd have to do the same thing for all of the other presidents mistresses as well. And there were a fair number of them.

[quote]For me there are way to many real coins to buy to worry about those.[

To each their own. I like them and that's all that matters to me.

Scottishmoney is right on. In addition to the ones he mentioned, there are several others.

I don't think that what they did in their personal lives had much, if any, effect on their job performance.

As for the series, I wasn't too thrilled with the first two, but I like Jefferson. And, Jefferson by the way, one of the most brilliant men to ever hold the office of President, carried on with one of his slaves for years, and was rumored to have an "association" with at least one other lady. He loved his wife very dearly, and his association with others, although behind the scenes, probably didn't take place while he was married.