Posted 04/29/2020 7:20 pm
Given they will still be called the "2020 Olympics", even though they are planned to be held in 2021, I suspect the answer for the RAM will be, "they will be sold as usual". For countries that have not yet released or begun to sell their Olympic commemoratives, they may withdraw them, or even melt down and restrike them with the "correct" future dates, depending on the laws of the countries in question. France, for example, has strict laws against the Mint producing and selling coins with the "wrong date" on them.
If countries that have already produced and sold Olympic coins decide make a second series of coins for next year with the "correct" obverse date (as I suspect some will do so), then I suspect the "cancelled Olympics" coins might become curiosities in years to come - not entirely unlike the "wrong date" medals for the coronation of Edward VII (his original coronation date had to be postponed when the king came down with appendicitis)... or the "protocol error" West German coins for the 1972 Olympics with "in Deutschland" instead of "in Munchen".
Whether such "curiosity" would then convert to "massive increase in collector value", only the future knows.
If countries that have already produced and sold Olympic coins decide make a second series of coins for next year with the "correct" obverse date (as I suspect some will do so), then I suspect the "cancelled Olympics" coins might become curiosities in years to come - not entirely unlike the "wrong date" medals for the coronation of Edward VII (his original coronation date had to be postponed when the king came down with appendicitis)... or the "protocol error" West German coins for the 1972 Olympics with "in Deutschland" instead of "in Munchen".
Whether such "curiosity" would then convert to "massive increase in collector value", only the future knows.
Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis
