Comments on: US Mint Discusses Plans For Presidential and Military Medals in Silver

By: captainrich

captainrich — Tue, 23 Jan 2018 13:36:53 +0000

Chas Barber: “There goes my limited edition TR & FDR Medals, & JFK & IKE & Harry the Hat Truman.”

According to the article, these new medals will be struck as proofs, so the scarcity of the uncirculated versions contained in the Presidential C&C sets should not be affected.

The articles states, “The two silver medal series would share similarities. Plans are to strike both in collector proof quality using American Silver Eagle planchets.”

By: Robert F Hall

Robert F Hall — Tue, 23 Jan 2018 01:20:40 +0000

This is a good marketing technique by the mint, especially if they start with the silver presidential Washington medal. This is remarkably the most interesting medal program the mint has ever introduced in my opinion! GREAT IDEA!!

By: Chas Barber

Chas Barber — Mon, 22 Jan 2018 23:42:26 +0000

There goes my limited edition TR & FDR Medals, & JFK & IKE & Harry the Hat truman

By: Tinto

Tinto — Mon, 22 Jan 2018 03:11:07 +0000

Too bad the Mint did not strike a silver Prez medal for the RR C&C set, instead they decided to stuff it with the 30 Anniv. proof ASE in an effort to goose its sales. A silver medal would have made the RR C&C set so much more attractive (IMO) and more in keeping with the previous Prez C&C sets .. but leave it up to the Mint to screw things up .. they won’t disappoint there.

By: CoinsA-Z

CoinsA-Z — Sat, 20 Jan 2018 21:34:43 +0000

I’m glad the US Mint is focusing more attention on producing medals.

In my view, in this day and age, medals are far superior to coinage since there are less restrictions or requirements on medal design and therefore more room on the piece to display the artwork and only the wording pertinent or relevant to the design.

I look forward to seeing and likely buying these medals.

By: chuck

chuck — Sat, 20 Jan 2018 00:23:07 +0000

Some collect coins; some prefer metals; some like both. This will be another long series. Perhaps I will not be around when it ends but my suggestion is a legal tender $50 silver 1 oz coin for the Presidents ( the mint could, today, buy all the silver it needs for the program at today’s price). They therefore could not only insure a profit but use the “profit” to reduce the debt. Of course the mints price should be set at $50 for all future coins. The kids could complete the series.