First Lady Bronze

Not fond of the small copper medals. They are literally the red headed orphan stepchild of the US Mint. Made with indifferent care, very frequently they are sent spotted, scratched or dinged. Finding a blemish free full red medal is a challenge in the spouses. The last two years medals are also priced artificially high in the secondary market for early sellouts, and these are medals not coins. They're also the yellow canaries of a storage system, they tarnish so easily before anything else even in the cello wrapping. IMO, The Mint missed an opportunity to capitalize on the spouses by not making the medals in the same size as the president dollars, either charge $5 for a copper medal or $20 for a 1/4 oz silver medal. That would've gotten many more collectors involved, as albums could be easily made and filled with such coins/medals. As it is the gold coins are very handsome, elegant products. The complete spouse and president set will probably become the Holy Grail of future collectors. The bronze duplicates just don't compare and feels like getting the leftovers.

I agree with the above comments.

My daughter and I have been collecting the Bronze medals (along side the Presidential proofs) since they came out a few years ago.

If you got them as they came out, this was a very inexpensive way to get the medals that are supposed to complement the dollars. And since there are only two years left, I will complete the set.

But buying them after the fact in the secondary market is not worth it.

The strikes are not good at all. You expect "real" medals to be in high relief, but of course these are not any such thing. they are the "poor man's" version of the gold eagles. Now, those Eagles are beautiful coins, but ask yourself. do you know anybody who is collecting the flu run of the gold eagles?