https://www.coinnews.net/2011/09/26/james-monroe-commemorative-coin-act-reintroduced/ CoinNews delivers the latest World and US coin news Tue, 27 Sep 2011 15:54:13 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://www.coinnews.net/2011/09/26/james-monroe-commemorative-coin-act-reintroduced/#comment-38067 Tue, 27 Sep 2011 15:54:13 +0000 http://www.coinnews.net/?p=22384#comment-38067 One oz gold for a commemorative coin? Ridiculous! They can barely sell 24,000 of the $5 commemorative gold coins.
These are coins that only hard core collectors buy and have virtually no after-market value other than gold melt. If you want to encourage commemorative coin sales you make the coins cheaper, not more expensive.
Commemorating an election? This is stretching it. We honor the birth or death of a President – not when he got elected. Honor the Monroe Doctrine in 2023 instead. That’s both educational and meaningful. Who cares when he got elected? I hope this bill dies in committee again.

]]> https://www.coinnews.net/2011/09/26/james-monroe-commemorative-coin-act-reintroduced/#comment-38026 Mon, 26 Sep 2011 16:58:31 +0000 http://www.coinnews.net/?p=22384#comment-38026 Here Here….Huzzah! I’ll buy one…!!
Hopefully silver & gold will be more affordable by then. Looks like we’re headed in that direction already.
Trivia: On what date did James Monroe die? (no fair asking Google).

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