Where's All The Love For The 2016 Standing Liberty Quarter?

Beautiful coin. I hope to keep one for my collection. That said @jwitten (fellow flipper), I hope you captured the pre-sale volume on eBay before the sh*t show begins tomorrow. This isn't as good as the American Liberty Medals (another beautiful coin) but I still did pretty well on this go. Good luck tomorrow everyone!

PS... My crystal ball shows no sell out tomorrow but we'll see.

 

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Maybe there'll be such a lack of interest they'll have to melt half of them and it becomes the key of the series. (Doubtful)

 

I'm planning to get one too.

 

I think you meant dolphin.

This one nicely expresses what I believe to be an increasingly common purchase intent for the SLQ gold:

 

Oh, so that is what Kurt had in mind when he wrote about the Flipper scene.

 

60 MILLION dollars gross profit for the Mint from this one coin/medal/bullion/commemorative. ~$150 per coin, over today's spot.

Just saying.

 

No love from me. I can't afford to flip one, and I am of the opinion that moderns are a poor investment.

 

I didn't use the word "dolphin" on porpoise. To me, "dolphin" is an actual fish from which we get Mahi Mahi, which is, in turn, one Mahi too Many.

Oh, I want to be known as The Biggest Critic of the Centennial Gold Tribute Coin Series. The whole series isn't worth the water it would take to flush them.

@chrisild, the only flipping I do is the one involving digits, where this coin series is concerned.

 

Why do you say that? Can you explain a bit?

 

If the acquisition of the gold was free, if they employed slave labor to produce the planchets, strike and package 100k of them with packaging donated by someone, this post could be a useful comparison tool.

 

Mint website just crashed.... of course....

 

Who's surprised? I see exactly no hands raised.

 

So that's what you call them. Oh, wait. You actually did mean rivets. Never mind.

 

I couldn't complete the sale on Chrome. Browser would hang up on confirmation and gray out that step. Switched to IE and no problem.

 

Oh there's still a "problem" - you bought the coin. That's "problem" enough.

 

Not really. I already have it sold.

 

I probably wouldn't have bought one if I knew it was nickel sized. Big disappointment knowing that. Seems more like the Franklin Mint then a coin now.

 

It is because it has to be. Gold's specific gravity, along with the pre-made decision to make it 1/4 troy ounce, made it IMPOSSIBLE to be quarter sized without making it so thin as to be impossible to have decent relief on it.

 

All they had to do was take equivalent sized gold planchets and make sure they fully struck up duplicates of the 1916 coins. The quality of the mercs was shameful. I sold mine and I won't be buying the SLQ or WLH.

They should have made these in silver and not gold, but that was the result of poor planning.

 

Two problems with that - they announced at the VERY BEGINNING that these coins would be 1/10, 1/4, and 1/2 ounce coins. Therefore they could NOT do as you suggest. They would have all been about 50% too heavy each.

Not producing them in silver was NOT due to poor planning. The Mint MAY NOT produce ANY silver "coin" (as opposed to a medal) without a Congressional mandate, aka, a law. They are "blanket authorized" to produce anything their little hearts desire in bullion quality gold or platinum.