Comments on: US Mint Sales: Pat Nixon Gold Coins Debut

By: Seth Riesling

Seth Riesling — Sun, 28 Feb 2016 18:13:31 +0000

S. Knight –

You are so right on your comment. I agree that for some strange reason the U.S. Mint didn’t seem to be pleased with having to produce at least 4 new coin designs a year for this gold $10 coin First Spouse series (they had a lot of trouble with some of the selected designs not striking up properly in the dies & it therefore cost them a small fortune in the test strike phase for each coin ( 4 obverse/reverse designs year) plus sales were not great either but they still were forced by legislation to produce & sell them). The Mint basically treated the series as the “little orphan Annie” of all coins they have produced in recent years. Plus the 1/2 oz of .9999 fine gold in each coin times 4 coins a year (8 coins if you wanted both Proof & Unc) kept many collectors out pricewise. It is sad too because most of the reverse designs in particular were great IMHO.

-NumisDudeTX

By: S. Knight

S. Knight — Sat, 27 Feb 2016 22:48:09 +0000

Thanks SETH RIESLING. All the SERIES of the GOLD spouses seem in be in the end run. Amazing that the marketing was so bad.

By: Seth Riesling

Seth Riesling — Fri, 26 Feb 2016 01:10:57 +0000

Just a FYI on the First Lady Patricia “Pat” Nixon $10 gold First Spouse coin: her legal name was Thelma Catherine (Ryan) Nixon! The U.S. Mint doesn’t use legal names for most of these coins, but rather their nicknames which is a shame to the history portrayed by our coinage. I posted the full story on this coin blog website the other day under the 2016 Patricia Nixon gold coin article & my story of meeting Claudia Alta Taylor “Lady Bird” Johnson if anyone is interested.

Happy collecting everyone!

-NumisDudeTX