Comments on: Senate Passes Bill to Mint Coins for Moon Landing’s 50th Anniversary

By: jim

jim — Thu, 13 Apr 2017 03:35:21 +0000

At least this is a commemorative coin we can be proud of – something the US and only the US has ever done. And it wasn’t war related. Too bad we missed the 25th anniversary of the launching of the Hubble telescope – another proud to be an American event not yet commemorated by Congress.

By: Robert Hall

Robert Hall — Wed, 12 Apr 2017 23:43:48 +0000

The obverse of the coin should show Neil Armstrong stepping off the Apollo ll ladder onto the moon. The module should be curved to look as if it were coming off the coin with a 3d effect. Star Wars style maybe. That is my view of the coin, now I just need an artist to complete it.

By: jim

jim — Thu, 15 Dec 2016 19:39:46 +0000

As I understand it the Philadelphia meetings were with US Mint personnel. Since the commemorative coins are laws from Congress they set the mintages as they see fit (i.e. whatever the boilerplate from a previous commemorative coin was without thinking). Obviously the mint has chosen to keep the feedback they got to themselves without informing Congress or anybody else (since we haven’t heard anything since). Another example of the mint being secretive about what they do and the information they have.

By: Vadim

Vadim — Thu, 15 Dec 2016 14:19:33 +0000

So based on the high mintage limits, nothing came of the meeting in Philadelphia to discuss the hobby’s future?

By: joera

joera — Wed, 14 Dec 2016 07:14:16 +0000

No telling really how many they are going to make yet. I mean it’s up to 400,000 combined for proof and uncirculated. But yea it will probably be too many as always. But I will still get them.

By: jim

jim — Wed, 14 Dec 2016 05:47:29 +0000

Chuck – re: not blaming – not a political decision but a joint decision to stick it to coin collectors.

JP – re: TOO MANY – Congress apparently rubber stamps commemorative coin laws without thinking, using the same mintages year after year. The exception this year is the inclusion of the 5 oz silver coins. (Will they be convex/concave too? That’ll be a new collector coin, if so.) Wait till next time to see which boiler plate is used for the next commemorative coins. But yes, if they offer a set of the 4 coins you can probably expect to pay $40 -$50 extra just for the packaging.

By: Jp

Jp — Tue, 13 Dec 2016 23:09:50 +0000

Sounds like an interesting compilation of coins. Not a big fan of the gold $5 curved as they are so small. Gold in a flat coin would be great. I think the 5oz silver could be quite showy, but I bet the Mint slams us on price on those! 100,000 (TOO MANY). 400,000 silver dollars WAY TOO MANY!
Oh, and can you imagine the overkill of packaging that will come with these?
I like the moon landing commemorative idea though.

By: chuck

chuck — Tue, 13 Dec 2016 23:05:33 +0000

Hope I can get them!! Congress did something without blaming each other!!!