Comments on: 2020 Basketball Hall of Fame Commemorative Coin Images

By: smuglr

smuglr — Wed, 18 Mar 2020 23:22:24 +0000

The release date for these appears to have changed to April 9 according to the website.

By: smuglr

smuglr — Wed, 18 Mar 2020 23:21:11 +0000

The release date for these appears to have changed to April 9 according to the mint site.

By: Joe Blake

Joe Blake — Fri, 13 Mar 2020 16:43:12 +0000

In reply to Seth Riesling. I hear the outside vendor is the same company that produces most of the words colorized coins for the past 20 years, so chances are they know what they are doing. We have to accept that the US Mint is bleeding massive amounts of customers every year and that they have to do more to attract younger collectors, have you visited a coin show recently, have you not noticed how old we've become???

By: Seth Riesling

Seth Riesling — Fri, 13 Mar 2020 15:58:50 +0000

The U.S. Mint cancelled its attendance at the Baltimore show next week due to COVID-19 & now that major coin show is cancelled as is the NCAA Fan Fest in Atlanta on Saturday April 4 (the public launch & first day sales date) another major event cancelled…the U.S. Mint is “closed” due to construction of a new plan of action for its in-person sales channels. They are in crisis mode & want us customers to pay the price for their poor planning when we knew about the novel virus 3 months ago. The Mint have three gift shops in the USA that should be closed too to protect the public during this health crisis & stop the price-gouging you are doing at the Mint Mr. Ryder! Get real man!

NumisdudeTX

By: Seth Riesling

Seth Riesling — Fri, 13 Mar 2020 15:42:31 +0000

The U.S. Mint is raising its coin prices just as base metals & precious metals are diving down! These curved coins cost no more to produce than last year’s Apollo 11 curved coins. $39 & $37 for a copper-nickel clad coin is outrageous!! Most Young Numismatists can’t afford that plus $4.95 S&H. It is simply so very sad that U.S. Mint Director David J. Ryder is ruining the hobby for many with his absurd antics! Now his public launch of all these coins in Atlanta on Saturday, April 4 has been cancelled & he only has 9 months to sell these commemorative coins by law due to bad planning & bad leadership on his part. You are losing customers daily now Mr. Ryder & you have too many products planned for this year & not enough time to conduct the process in an intelligent manner. You need to plan better & lower your prices in line with true metal costs. Why do you only charge $2 over spot silver for the ASE $1 bullion version coins to the Mint’s APs for MANY years now without an increase & we know now from public records you tried to hide from the public that it only costs the Mint less than $25 to produce a Proof ASE $1 coin that you raised the price on this year to $64??!! Asinine behavior!

NumisdudeTX

By: cagcrisp

cagcrisp — Fri, 13 Mar 2020 14:38:02 +0000

2020 Basketball HOF Silver Proof Introductory $69.00 +$14.05 or 25.6% from Apollo 11 Launch Silver Proof
2020 Basketball HOF Silver Uncirculated Introductory $64.00 +$12.05 or 23.2% from Apollo 11 Launch Silver Uncirculated
2020 Basketball HOF Clad Proof Introductory $39.00 +$11.05 or 39.5% from Apollo 11 Launch Clad Proof
2020 Basketball HOF Clad Uncirculated Introductory $37.00 +$11.05 or 42.6% from Apollo 11 Launch Clad Uncirculated
2020 Basketball HOF Kids Set $45.00 (No Introductory pricing)…

By: cagcrisp

cagcrisp — Thu, 12 Mar 2020 14:17:30 +0000

Having a Lockdown of March Madness and some NBA games ( Golden State Warriors) will have me re-evaluate my position on the Basketball HOF coins.
That’s where the Bulk of my sales were going to come from…

I don’t remember a Saturday Launch for any Mint product and I don’t remember the FIRST Launch of a commemorative coin being this late in the year.

The Mint rolled the dice with a Launch coinciding with the Final Four…
…and came up with snake eyes…

You’ve wasted two months of sales to tie in with the Final Four and now that is gone and with NBA schedule being suspended, that just compounded the problem…

By: George Wolfe

George Wolfe — Wed, 11 Mar 2020 16:55:58 +0000

In reply to PIEDMONT. I am still upset over the 2019 enhanced silver eagle, slow to forget.

By: lonnie

lonnie — Wed, 11 Mar 2020 03:21:53 +0000

In reply to cagcrisp. i agree. it almost appears that the mint is trying to kill their gold, platinum, and silver programs.

By: Henry Brandt

Henry Brandt — Tue, 10 Mar 2020 22:11:47 +0000

I like this issue. Will be buying all of them.