Standing Liberty is scheduled

No one knows for sure, but most likely. The gold Kennedy did it and now the gold Merc has as well. Both gold versions of circulating coinage the mint has done have dropped as soon as the initial hype died down and there really isn't a reason to believe this one won't as well

 

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Yea true especially considering the HH limit of 1, and high mintage. I just saw two auctions on Ebay currently bidding at 720 dollars for a presale... Really hope that's just the seller faking the bidding...

 

It'll go higher than that most likely for presales probablu like 800-900. If the mint sold them today it would probably be 485 or so with their pricing then accounting for grading and ebay fees ect I'd guess most presales for 70s will be in the 800-900 range. 5 months from now they may be selling for like 600 but unless very few get 70s the strongest prices will be the ones who sell them first

 

Although it's hard to tell, I think Baseball has the pattern down. If it was me, I would wait and not jump in on the first whistle. I bet a lot of Merc buyers on the secondary market wish they had.

Of course you can get on the phone or on line and get one direct from the Mint. Even though there is a lower mintage, the household limit might avoid a quick sellout. But then again, as you pointed out, you haven't had a lot of luck with raw Mint issues.

 

I'm definitely not buying raw from the US mint on such an expansive coin, no more trust left for them. I hope you're right, I'll try my best to hold my urge to jump on a ebay purchase right away... Ive waited so long, a month or so more won't hurt...

 

I'm curious to see if she'll have a nipple or if they'll omit it like the full bands and blame it on superior technology.

 

Are you looking for graded or raw? If raw I would avoid the big ebay sellers that have a lot of graded ones. Generally those raw ones are the ones that didn't make the grade on their submissions

 

Definitely a graded one. Been saving for a while for this one, so I want the best I can get. I don't trust raw US commerative coins from anywhere because of the reason you stated. What about you? Are you gonna be getting one? Graded or raw?

 

I'm not. I got the pouty lip when I found out they wouldn't be produced in silver. Considering the production problems with the Mercs, I would probably go with a graded/slabbed version if I did want to buy one. I always leave open the option of changing my mind.

 

Have you seen the actual pictures of it?Seems pretty good to me. Once the unboxing videos of it get on YouTube, you might change your mind lol.

 

There are no actual pictures yet. They call them pictures, but that is a computer generated image.

 

Wait 6 months and they'll be a lot cheaper.

 

I will be passing. Maybe sometime next year when the prices have stabilized but the mintage's and the quality of Mercs really turned me off on the set. Now had they been in Platinum I would have been all over them

 

They were just released 4 months ago and some people didn't even get them for another month. Id say they're still fairly recent.
The last I looked on eBay there were a few hundred for sale. And some of that is empty boxes. That's down from 900+ immediately after the sale.

So not impossible to obtain but that should be expected. That's really not that many for sale after 110k have been released. There's thousands more sitting at the mint likely waiting to be melted. There won't be 125k gold mercs in circulation when its all said and done.
Nor will all 100k of these quarters be in collector hands when its all said and done either. Apparently issues with defects.
I'm debating whether to buy from mint and risk it or play it safe and buy a graded one.

 

There has been actual photos of the gold standing liberty for months. Someone uploaded pictures of a promotion coin on Twitter. If you Google 2016 gold standing liberty coin, and click images, you'll find it. Pictures for both the reverse and obverse.

 

Can you post a few of them here? All I have found are small fuzzy pictures of the real thing.. nothing good yet.

 

Maybe you are talking about the ones i am, i'll upload them anyway. Here they are:



Here is the link to the article and you can find the reverse and the original twitter post:
http://news.coinupdate.com/pennsylv...-early-pics-of-gold-standing-liberty-quarter/

Here's a video of the mint producing these:
http://www.coinworld.com/news/us-co...quarter-centennial-west-point-mint-video.html

 

Those are the only ones I could find as well. I will wait until high res shots come out before a final judgement.

 

I have seen the coin in hand and I will tell you that the detail on these coins will be "subdued" just like on the Merc.

In fact, the pic posted by Arvin (just 2 posts prior) is a VERY good picture from the standpoint of detail. Higher resolution probably won't matter for viewing the detail.

 

Well does it look at least something like the one in the photo? Or is the lighting in the photo enhancing the look? That's a shame because i thought a thicker and bigger coin would mean better details...