Comments on: 2014 Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Medals

By: senior

senior — Sun, 04 Jan 2015 23:05:00 +0000

I apologize for the double

By: senior

senior — Sun, 04 Jan 2015 23:03:13 +0000

I had said I would purchase 1 of the current FDR set but I’m still hanging if I hang too long and loose out I don’t really care.None of this material since the 2001 Buffalo has really hit me.As far as expecting a return few of these offerings have any potential of profit gain.If you are in with a set or two as a collectible great but I wouldn’t fill bank safety deposit boxes with this stuff.

By: senior

senior — Sun, 04 Jan 2015 21:16:33 +0000

I had said I would purchase 1.of the current FDR set but I’m still hanging if I hang too long and loose out I don’t really care.None of this material since the 2001 Buffalo has really hit me.As far as expecting a return few of these offerings have any potential of profit gain.If you are in with a set or two as a collectible great,please don”t fill bank safety deposit boxes with this stuff.

By: Joe C.

Joe C. — Sun, 04 Jan 2015 19:22:41 +0000

Rec’d my FDR sets on friday, Jan 3rd. On inspecting the silver FDR medals, I could not find the silver specs anywhere on the medal. I think 99.9 fine silver should have been marked somewhere on it. Possible on the edge. Other than that, they are very nice sets. I still think the $1.00 coin resembles Ed Herrmann more than FDR. Sad to hear Ed Herrmann passed away a few days ago. He played a very good FDR in the movie.

By: J

Tue, 30 Dec 2014 22:16:34 +0000

The obverse design was created almost a decade before 1945. It wasn’t created for the 1945 Inauguration or Memorial medals.

By: Victor DeCurtis

Victor DeCurtis — Tue, 30 Dec 2014 18:13:41 +0000

Collecting, to me, is about acquiring sets of coins and medals, for the mere joy and satisfaction of having what others don’t. I didn’t sell them, nor do I have any intention of doing so. However, I’ve had the pleasure of taking a few of them out and showing others who never had any idea, they were once available. Collecting vs stock piling for future sale, is different. I have on several occasions, “sold” coins to a new collector, at cost. Pennies, nickles, dimes, quarters and halves, in jars from change, are a great way to start a new person on his or her way to a journey that will last a lifetime. I “sold” them at cost, meaning, face value. I’m sure when they went home, put the coins into their Whitman folders and looked up the value, they must have thought they hit the mother lode. That’s the same feeling I still get when I find a wheatie on the ground. It’s fun!

By: RonnieBGood

RonnieBGood — Mon, 29 Dec 2014 23:57:37 +0000

Victor – The math (an example):
If you paid $3 for a 3″ metal in 1966, after 48 years your total return was 14%. This is approximately 0.29% a year. Still think you have done well?

I’m sure you purchased many after 1966 but even these returns would not have kept up with the annual rate of inflation. The best part is the enjoyment you have received by owning them. As much as we love our collections In the end we hope our collections will turn a profit, for us or for those that we pass them on to.

By: Joe

Joe — Mon, 29 Dec 2014 23:12:55 +0000

JFK will be my next one. The .999 fine silver and low mintage and the rest of it is really sharp.

By: Victor DeCurtis

Victor DeCurtis — Mon, 29 Dec 2014 22:27:46 +0000

Back in 1966, just after I was introduced to coin collecting, I received a brochure, from the Philadelphia Mint, showing all the 3″ medals of the presidents and the corresponding 1-5/16″ medallion. I have never regretted buying every one of them and later on I purchased other medals of varied subjects. I went to the Mint, in 1973, and after walking around the mint, on the viewer’s catwalk, I stopped at the mint’s store. Wow, I bought a lot more obscure medals, which I know are no longer minted. Except for Washington, Lincoln and the presidents from Reagan onward, none of the other presidents are minted. I paid .50 cents for each 1-5/16″ medal and $3.00 for each 3″ medal. Now at over $5 for the small ones and $36 for the 3″ medals, I think I did well. I would say, get one or two, just to have a piece of history.

By: RonnieBGood

RonnieBGood — Mon, 29 Dec 2014 16:16:42 +0000

I’m going to pass on the tokens/metals set. For the cost this would have been better with an enlarged FDR Dime as a $1 one ounce silver coin (like they did with the Buffalo Nickel). Also would have liked a Gold dime (at normal size as an optional set). This would have been an affordable gold coin and sold well.