I think my favorite coin is the Homer Simpson salute to alcohol. I’ve dabbled in other country coinage. Like the queen beast coin. The new britannia. The main mint coins like royal, Perth, Australia, Canada. Some have gimmicks like sand from the sphinx, or quartz from cave, or obsidian from the island. Or rare shapes. Haven’t seen the Ukraine coin, but I think they have more to worry about than making coins. Like selling a couple of the Abrams tanks and leopard tank to russia. How to get a f35 to China. It’s astounding a comedian turned dictator is beating a janitor for the kgb.

I have a selectively gold plated Canadian Parks Dollar from their 2011 proof set. That’s my favourite of that type. I don’t care for the colorized coins. You’re right, to each its own. Not my cup of tea though.

I had read somewhere earlier (or at least implied) the low sales of the Negro commemoratives was, in part that a high percentage of collectors are white, and therefore….In all honesty it wouldn’t surprise me if that was true, but not to any great degree that was implied. Personally I wish the Mint could avoid such areas that might be controversial. I had a brother in law who wouldn’t vote for a candidate with a woman as a vice president, so I imagine if he were still alive he would not be thrilled with the women’ quarters. Personally I wish they had kept with Liberty instead of putting presidents on the coins, and now of course people complain because some of them were slave owners.

But people buy them, that’s what they care about.

I was only intending to put those words in my mouth since I didn’t buy into the mint’s offerings, and not anyone else’s. My apologies if anyone took it that way.

Nice reply, Major D.

This one sure came out of nowhere. Makes sense I guess, since nowhere in it is there any value for the collectors using this site. Try to do better in the future, Tom. Please.

I assume that means if you haven’t purchased heavily the US Women’s quarters you are sexist, and if you did little with the Baseball coins last year you are a racist. Or maybe you simply like the themes/designes offered by other countries

Major D, when it comes to modern Sovereign Silver Coins, you can’t go wrong with the three beautiful argent ladies: the Mexican Libertad’ Winged Victory statue, the British Britannia’ figure of Britannia, and the American Eagle’ classic Lady Liberty.

So many by so many countries and distributors, you may very well be right.