Comments on: Senate Bill Seeks Curved Apollo 11 50th Anniversary Coins

By: jim

jim — Sun, 26 Mar 2017 00:13:03 +0000

I wouldn’t mind if the law left out the clad and gold versions and just charged us an arm and a leg for the two silver coins. They’ve had enough practice making the 5 oz coins to be able to do a decent job by now. The first 5 oz coins were pretty lame and the proof quality should help too.

By: Robert Hall

Robert Hall — Sat, 25 Mar 2017 03:19:25 +0000

Buzz was also a fine man as was Collins, but they weren’t first.

By: Robert Hall

Robert Hall — Sat, 25 Mar 2017 03:17:33 +0000

Neil Armstrong was the first man to step on the moon. I hope they find room to commemorate his being first. I think he deserves recognition.

By: jim

jim — Thu, 09 Jun 2016 19:38:16 +0000

In reply to joera. It's hard to tell what the head-in-the-sand management at the mint will do. They seem to have lost all knowledge of what communication means or how to do it.

By: joera

joera — Thu, 09 Jun 2016 04:48:59 +0000

I wonder if this is going to be something that all curved coins will have in common? The same design across all types of metals and denominations?
And I hope the mintages are not going to be as high as they are told they can produce because .. THEY CAN NOT SELL THAT MANY!!

By: Seth Riesling

Seth Riesling — Fri, 27 May 2016 02:20:04 +0000

David –

All three coins ($5 gold, $1 silver & 50-cents clad) in the 2014 National Baseball Hall of Fame 75th anniversary commemorative coin program had the same obverse & reverse designs & were curved & it was the most popular modern US Mint coin program ever!

-NumisDudeTX

By: David

David — Thu, 26 May 2016 23:24:20 +0000

Am I reading this right?
“…the coins’ common obverse…” and “…coins would share a reverse design…”?
So the coins would all have the same obverse and all have the same reverse designs? That would probably take the program from the most potentially interesting and promising modern commemorative coin program to one of unbelievable lost opportunity.

By: jim

jim — Wed, 25 May 2016 19:54:22 +0000

In reply to Tinto.

I don’t think they pay too much attention to electronic missives since they’re so easy to write and send, especially if they have a box right on the web page. But don’t stop commenting.
I send mine by snail mail. Since it takes more effort to compose, print, address the envelope, and pay for a stamp they give that a little more consideration. When I complained to Sec Geithner about Dep Dir Peterson the Product Schedule showed a marked improvement over the neglect it was getting before. I’m expecting to see a similar response effort. Today the Product Schedule has only one product scheduled 1 1/2 weeks out with 12 TBDs and a bunch of other unknowns. If Sec Lew reads my letter and reacts you should see the 12 TBDs go away and maybe real dates for the other products fairly soon.

By: Tinto

Tinto — Wed, 25 May 2016 18:45:48 +0000

I sent a complaint a while back on the website ordering crap from the time of the Prez C&C’s and reply, what reply? Folks like me are too small for them to notice …

By: jim

jim — Wed, 25 May 2016 14:18:44 +0000

Really? You’re asking how we can have two $ coins with a different amount of silver? What about a regular quarter and a 5 oz silver quarter? What about a 1 oz $50 gold eagle, a 1 oz $50 gold buffalo, and a 1 oz $100 gold liberty? The Mint has been totally inconsistent lately mixing $ value and metal content. But then again this is Congress asking for these coins – you know, the people who are afraid to get rid of the penny.

Tinto – I sent my complaint letter to Sec Lew on the 19th so maybe he hasn’t gotten it yet or maybe he hasn’t read it yet or maybe the mint isn’t important to the Secretary of the Treasury, or maybe Sec Lew is another hands off manager. I’m hoping it’s one of the first two.
Have you sent him your letter yet?