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New Member
United States
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In my view, there are better ways to spend nearly $500 per 1/4 oz of gold. It's not a very exciting coin at all.
I'm going to pass on this one and save my money for coins I feel are better in design and value.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Got it today! What a beauty  The only thing that "bugs" me in-hand is the smaller 22mm diameter, it just doesn't look like a "Quarter". Quote:
The Standing Liberty silver quarters were notoriously poorly struck Not this one  Quote:
...most have never seen a high grade example in person If you have a well-struck AU/MS example, it's most likely a Type II, and that's just not the same. I frankly dislike the Type II reverse, at least in comparison to its predecessor. Quote:
The Walking Liberty design, while attractive, is by now all too familiar. 30 years of ASE's will do that to you. The W.L. reverse, right up there with the Type I SLQ reverse as one of my all-time favorites, will be nice to see again, and in gold no less. Still, double the price of the gold SLQ, and not as unique. Quote:
It would have been nice to have a silver option approved for minting Oh, man, I would have been all over a five-ounce hockey puck version of this!  Edited by DNA
09/14/2016 10:23 pm
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 United States
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The only thing that "bugs" me in-hand is the smaller 22mm diameter, it just doesn't look like a "Quarter". Too bad the Twenty Cents coin did not replace the quarter back in the 19th century. Imagine the "Standing Liberty Fifth" in gold.  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1450 Posts |
I put in my order today for this coin. It is the only gold coin I will have. I might go ahead and get the gold issues of the Mercury dime if any left and the LWH as well. These are the classic designs I have collected anyway along with Buffalo nickel. I hope they don't produce too many. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
2125 Posts |
Received mine last week. This coin is beautiful in hand.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
7194 Posts |
I have been collecting the $5 commerative coins this year and this one is simalar in size to them.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Valued Member
United States
160 Posts |
54,000 sold as of this morning
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1450 Posts |
I just hope they don't produce a couple of million of these coins. That will destroy numismatic value IMO. I would buy the LWH dollar gold coin and the Mercury dime. These coins might just appreciate in my life time. It is either buy the gold coins of 20 century or get a SIG Sauer to protect my hoard. If you look at classic commemorative coins when mint produced hundreds of thousands of them the value just stayed weak forever. We may be suckers for buying these coins. |
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United States
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HH limits removed today I just now got that e-mail. |
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New Member
United States
33 Posts |
The US Mint is having a very hard time getting much interest by collectors in these lack-luster coins....so much so that now they have just removed the household purchase limit.
It's a dull coin and a poor investment of my money at best and the only one's who will buy multiples are those who think that the coin is somehow a good investment.
I feel badly for those dealers who paid people like myself $50 or more to buy a coin for them now that the limit is removed.
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09/21/2016 12:43 pm
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Pillar of the Community
United States
5855 Posts |
Yeah, I just got that e-mail as well. I don't think it's really a matter of there not being much interest by collectors, though. With a household limit of only 1, I don't think there was much interest by resellers who were able to snap up 10 (or more, with multiple accounts) of the previous gold dime.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
11951 Posts |
I am thinking, in the past the mint got a lot of complaints from collectors
that the coin was sold out before they got a chance to get one.
A household limit of one did away with this problem. Of course it took away
the coin shooting up in price.
I think for many collectors it is a nice looking coin, most just don't want
to spend that much on a coin.
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Valued Member
United States
112 Posts |
The coin is amazingly beautiful in hand and I am very glad
I was able to purchase one with relative ease. Kudos to the
mint for the way they handled the sales allowing collectors to participate. Kudos too for the coin itself!
And now that the H.H. limits have been lifted perhaps we will see a sellout?
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Moderator
United States
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They are nice enough. I would have bought one (and the dime, too) if I had a budget for gold.
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