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Bedrock of the Community
United Kingdom
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As a non-American, I am in two minds about this. I would hate the US Mint to become like The Royal Mint or the Perth Mint and strike coins and medals commemorating everything under the sun. On the other hand, cartoon and comic book heroes are part of American culture and deserve to have some kind of commemoration. I just hope it doesn't get like the UK. I stopped collecting the various £5 'coins' some time ago before they even started on the pop stars and James Bond series. |
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Bedrock of the Community
 United States
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It was bound to happen I guess. First the U.S. Mint dabbled in colorized commemoratives... now full-blown LP products. Will we get plated ASEs next year? Will the mint kill itself by increasing prices while at the same time diluting the market? This smacks of the 90s baseball card bust to me. I'm trying to envision the people at the Mint making these decisions and am not impressed.  It's very unlikely that I'll be a buyer for these products and as @Baddog stated, I'm sure the prices will be exorbitant. But to be fair, as @jbuck stated, just because they make it does not mean one has to buy it. Since we're making this leap can we get old dead presidents (no disrespect meant to them of course) off of our circulating money too? |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Homelander was originally featured in the DC/Wildstorm comic series "The Boys," so why isn't he one of the superheroes we can vote for in the U.S. Mint survey? Undoubtedly, and at minimum, a rights issue. The title is creator-owned (Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson) and only the first 6 of 72 issues were published by DC, the remainder by Dynamite. DC may own some rights to the original publications but not necessarily the characters therein. Edited by Alpha2814
07/10/2024 1:34 pm
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 United States
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Since we're making this leap can we get old dead presidents (no disrespect meant to them of course) off of our circulating money too? Yes.  |
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Valued Member
United States
165 Posts |
I will not be buying. They asked about these coins as well as musical artists a while back. In that survey I told them I wasn't interested. I'm still not interested. I might (a very slight maybe) be able to go with a musical/science type series but the people they were offering didn't cut it for me.
Price will be very interesting on these as well.
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Pillar of the Community
 United States
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So any well financed organization or individual can pay the US Mint to make a gold coin of their liking Maybe, but I suspect it's the other way around. Unless DC Comics is getting a cut of the sales, then the US Mint is probably paying them a fee for using the intellectual property of DC Comics characters on the coins.  Edited by BadDog
07/10/2024 2:02 pm
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United States
95200 Posts |
The mint can and will do what is requested of them - I will not buy any coins or silver rounds with any 'super hero' motif on it.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
94367 Posts |
Just what we need, superhero coins.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1870 Posts |
the us mint is becoming too commercialized---
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Valued Member
United States
467 Posts |
As I kid I read Superman and Batman comics, but not a fan of this at all. Let's stick to the real life heroes.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
718 Posts |
I'm with mestephil above. Why don't they just go all the way and put out coins honoring sports heroes, or movie stars? I think those examples would be more acceptable to me.
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United States
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or movie stars? yeah, NO. don't need to see a bloody Bruce Willis in a torn up white tank top shirt. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
5604 Posts |
It's been Said, " Let's stick to the real life heroes. " Thank You..........  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1962 Posts |
 Let's put Pikachu on the $50 dollar bill while they're at it. . . |
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Valued Member
United States
372 Posts |
I Guess we need a Commemorative Football Shaped Coin 1st with Jim Thorpe on the Obverse and a Football on the Reverse. To go along with the Baseball / Apollo and the Basketball .goldnugget
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Posted 07/10/2024 1:30 pm
