elaine 1970

so far we will have four spouses gold coins in proof and uncirculated version. namely:

jefferson's liberty
jackson's liberty
van buren's liberty
buchanan's liberty

three designs were known and one still pending. two were on sales. i like jefferson and van buren liberty coins so far. which one you thought is the best?.

elaine 1970

2007 washinton's spouse - (P) 20,000, (D) 20,000 - sold out
2007 adams's spouse - (P) 20,000, (D) 20,000 - sold out
2007 jefferson's spouse - (P) 20,000, (D) - 20,000 sold out
2007 madison's spouse - (P) 18,355, (D) - 12,541 sold out
2008 monroe's spouse - (P) 7,402, (D) - 4,279
2008 q. adams's spouse - (P) 4,963, (D) - 2,832
2008 jackson's spouse - (P) 4,963, (D) -2,868
2008 van buren's spouse - (P) 2,845, (D) - 1,603

prices were $549.95 for the proof and $524.95 for unc.

CamaroDMD

I like Jefferson's the best by far. But, I love the Liberty first spouse coins...I plan on putting together a set of just those once I can afford to do so.

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green18

Jeffersons Liberty is the only one I own. Would indeed like to purchase Jacksons & Van Burens down the road.

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jaceravone

I like all of them!

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elaine 1970

will someone insert those spouses photos here. sorry, i don't know how to do it. thanks.

green18

Here's mine, courtesy of the US Mint Image Library....

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jaceravone

Here are the links to the other two:
http://www.usmint.gov/mint_programs/...action=jackson

http://www.usmint.gov/mint_programs/...ction=vanBuren

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Isaiah

I'd rather have the medals than these. I'm NOT selling of my draped bust silver dollar collection for these or anything else.

elaine 1970

thanks guys. i hope the fourth one will be as beautiful as the previous three. i don't think the mint have the design yet. right?.

BeauCoinCollect

Elaine, how was the Madison Spouse coin sold out if they only sold the amount you stated below? Doesn't the mint need to sale 20,000 of these coins to be sold out?

2007 madison's spouse - (P) 18,355, (D) - 12,541 sold out

elaine 1970

the mint just stop selling it.

jaceravone

What Elaine stated is true as far as the mint just stopped minting the Madison FS coin. Could be that the mint has exhausted all their current inventory on the shelf and are no longer minting the coin.

As far as total mintage goes, starting with the Madison FS coins. There is no longer a 20,000 mintage limit for each type of coin. The mint has decided to allow a 40,000 total mntage for each series with the total mintage for both the unc and proof coins to be determined by us, the consumer. So as an example, you can have 22,459 proofs and 17,541 uncs... or any combination for both types of coins that equal 40,000.

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elaine 1970

the mint might have to reduce its maximum mintage from 20,000 each to 6,000 each. the current issue high end is only about 5,000 for proof and 3,000 for unc.

Conder101

That is most likely correct, they probably had struck just a little over 30,000 pieces by the end of 2007 (What had already been ordered plus a small stockpile of uncs and proofs for future orders.) They continued selling until those ran out and since by law any coins struck have to bear the year of their mintage they were unable to strike any more 2007 coins. So they are effectively sold out.

The 40,000 maximum is written into the authorizing legislation so the mint CAN'T lower the maximum mintage. They can and have decided to let the actual mix of uncs and proofs bedecided by what is actually ordered and not specify a 20,000/20,000 split like they did on the first three. I think what the mint can, and should do is to just strike ahead of time the 5,000 proof and 3,000 uncs that Elaine mentioned, so they can be shipped as soon as the order period is opened and to handle he small trickle of orders that come in later. That way they don't have to have extra blanks on hand and money tied up in them.

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