Mark Twain Silver

Not a big first day of sales:

http://www.coinworld.com/news/us-coins/2016/02/mark-twain-silver-dollar-first-sales-paltry.all.html#

 

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@TopcatCoin, interesting stats. Not sure what it means long term. IMO, to early to make any conclusions.

 

It means the mint blew another one (the roll out) and they're over priced.

With a $10 surcharge, these should sell for around $29.95 or less. Funny how it's often difficult to sell things that are way over priced.

 

If you want to talk overpriced, check this out. http://www.ebay.com/itm/371540701173?ssPageName=STRK:MEDWX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1435.l2649

 

Guess I can take my sweet time getting a silver proof. At this rate, they will be available for some time.

 

I loved MAD magazine as a kid. I wouldn't pay that much for a silver round, but if it were around $20, maybe.

 

$45 is just too much. I'm not going to collect these any longer.

 

I would say a lot of people think they just flat out blew the design. Its extremely busy and even though they're references to his work it really is just a bunch of random things thrown together with no flow to the design. Even with the big premiums they charge for them the best designs generally sell well while the worst inch along until they're put out of their misery and pulled.

 

The US Mint made a mistake in delaying the sale of the silver coins to supposedly correct literary mistakes in the certificates.

They should have just sold the coins with the "bad" certificates and created a minor numismatic oddity.

I did purchase a silver proof and uncirculated dollar, but I always planned to.

 

Mine have shipped.

 

I almost never get silver dollar proofs any more. I ALWAYS get the BU. I like the look of nice frosty BU's better than throwing around mirrored backgrounds willy-nilly.

 

Different strokes for different folks - I love the Twain Dollar design. The Baseball Dollar, on the other hand, which sold out quickly, showed no creativity - granted, a popular theme and unique shape, but, really nothing more than an accurate rendition of a baseball and glove.

 

Me too! I only have one Statue Dollar proof that I bought for melt. The BU's frosty, blast white appearance does it for me. And, let's face it, the BU's lower mintages do better in the aftermarket.

 

Sometimes less is more, the mint limited options on the baseball once they decided to curve the coin.

To be fair to the Twain I don't think they did any of the images poorly which is sometimes the case, but it reminds me of the FL State Quarter where the images all make sense but look thrown together and have no flow. It's like a bunch of different people kept saying I want this and we need to add that. A little editing down or reconfiguration so it fit together better is more appealing imo.

I do like the gold version they did for the Twain though. I haven't seen one in hand yet but the reverse looks like a winner to me.

 

LOL - that's the one I don't like. Look at the water - the wake around the boat looks like rope and the water coming off the paddlewheel looks like spaghetti.

 

They probably could have cleaned that part up a bit but its not the easiest thing to depict on a coin. Overall though I enjoy the design.

 

Yeah? Not easy for mint artists.

 

Once reduced to actual coin size, the design is fine. Many designs look off if the image is blown up.

 

So you're saying it looks like Washington's hair on 1992-1998 proof quarters???

 

Yep and state quarters, O'l Spaghetti Hair. It's a cheap, easy, no talent way to make hair and apparently flowing water - the way I drew it in kindergarten.