US Mint 2016 24k Gold Coins To Celebrate 1916 Designs

Interesting, I noticed that and was wondering if it was just my coin.

These are surely beautiful. Looking forward to seeing one in hand sometime.

I received mine today, and I noticed that there is a small gold void on the rim of the reverse around 6 o'clock. There is also quite a high "fin" showing partially around the rim on both sides. It looks very thin and sharp. I observed the coin through my high power stereo microscope and can see several other small voids in the gold at different places. These are tiny and obviously due to gold flow not flowing smoothly into every nook and cranny of the die. The high fin is really neat and reminds me of the wire rim of the 1907 high relief St. Gaudens. I don't know if these "as made" small defects would enter into a grading decision if I chose to send it to the "P" or the "N" however.

This product did go on sale on September 8th, a Thursday. Perhaps you should call the mint and see what's up if your order is still processing. Credit card processing snafu or something, perhaps. Did you get any confirmation emails?

Fortunately looks like this'll be on sale for a while should there be a problem with your order.

And whoever said the world was fair?

Perhaps those of you who are still waiting for your coins opted for slower delivery methods and those receiving theirs already despite ordering a few days later paid for express delivery? Perhaps persons getting them quickly live close to Memphis where they're sent from?

Mine was ordered late in the day on Thursday of the release date because I was out of town.

Said "processing" all week but finally got an email on Friday afternoon and has shipped

The gold Walker halves are now being produced. Here's one of them.

http://www.coinworld.com/news/us-co...tput.1.html#



Now for an on sale date?!

I would like to see commemorative coins for all the great designs of the early 20th century. However, you can probably buy most of the gold coins for about what the mint would charge for a commemorative, but your original coin won't be in MS70. The real gold coins are not really circulating coins. They are more like commemoratives. When is the last time you saw someone pay for a item with a 1908 $5 gold piece? All our silver and gold coins are just collectables. People don't buy stuff with LWH dollars or Mercury dimes because the are all worth more as items than as money.