Comments on: Debut 2012 Alice Paul Gold Coin Sales Best Since 2010

By: jim

jim — Fri, 19 Oct 2012 15:33:20 +0000

Profits come from low supply and high demand. Max mintage is just getting down to reality figures. After the first year, sales have averaged a little under 10,000. And there’s your demand. The market is sated. The prices are too high or the coins are plain unpopular and nobody wants them. Except for a rise in the price of gold I think your profit potential for first spouse coins is very limited.

By: Josh

Josh — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 21:01:13 +0000

These have a mintage of 13,000 among proof and uncirculated pieces. The mintages are falling lower and lower but still, for a US coin that is incredibly low! Everyone was freaking out about the 100,000 mintage of the 2011 silver eagles. I might start getting coins of the first spouse series because they do have good profit potential. I know Silver Eagles are a lot more classical but still.

By: jim

jim — Wed, 17 Oct 2012 20:33:27 +0000

It’s an aberration of the first spouse series that was identified specifically in the law to be exactly what it is. Corresponds to Chester Arthur, the last of the unmarrieds. Subsequent first spouse coins will be back to the liberty design as the previous coins were.
As you say, it can be construed more as a commemorative since it doesn’t seem to be tied to any president at all. In that sense a coin probably more worth investing in than any of the other first spouse or liberty subset coins.

By: steve 1942

steve 1942 — Wed, 17 Oct 2012 14:48:04 +0000

Well, this may be a top selling coin, it is certainly an oddity. How the Mint and Congress installed this into the First Spouse series is beyond me. The other spousal coins at least have reference to the President that was in office during these date, if only by their last names. I see this coin as a Commemorative, and only a commemorative. This should be the official ending to the First Spouse series.