About that Presidential gold coin...

Elitist or inclusive? I can't keep them straight.

 

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I can't keep a straight face.....

 

I don't know but you have me wracking my Morse Code training from the Army fifty years ago to figure out what you said....

 

Well I don't have that kind of money, and if I did, there's other things I'd rather spend it on.

 

The largess and incredible bluster of one so entitled is only overshadowed by his inability to be humble. Granted, I like the guy, but also granted I begin to like him less. Teddy Roosevelt coined the term 'speak softly but carry a big stick'. I'm beginning to think this guy needs to beat some sense into him with a big stick. Teddy was speaking of foreign policy. This guy has lost it in domestic policy....

 

Must be being made for donors.

 

-86-

 

Wasn't someone talking about money laundering schemes in another thread?

 

No, no, we're talking about a coin, not... dangit, you almost snagged me with that one!

 

I would like to think that Trump is paying for them, after all the Hype.

 

I'm sure they will all be snapped up by his oligarch buddies.

 

Ugh

 

Thread's not locked yet?

Well trying to keep politics out of it, this feels less like a coin (even if it meets the technical definition) than just a publicity stunt, like the omega pennies or when some country makes a giant coin that will never be used just to say they did.

I still stand by an earlier statement I made that if this a coin an ordinary person of reasonable means could acquire, I'd want one, even if I don't think it should have been made in the first place. Because what the heck, it would always be a conversation piece.

But if it's just a big hunk of gold it's easy to ignore.

 

Since we're not supposed to make political arguments, I'll limit myself to cosmetic considerations. The orange patina of this coin is in keeping with the cosmetics of our beloved President.

 

Big old hunk of gold but still just a novelty coin at the end of the day.

 

I do own a few "novelty coins" if the price is not too high for me to buy them ironically. I have a somewhat overpriced silver dragon coin that came in a dragon egg container. I have a "coin" from the Hutt River Province that was made when Clinton was inaugurated that almost seems like a cartoonish parody of a Kennedy half dollar. I have room in my collection for a few such things as long as the price isn't crazy.

If this coin wasn't gold I'd probably even get one. One of my favorite "novelty" pieces if you could call it that is a Hard Times token that's basically a political cartoon mocking Andrew Jackson and Martin Van Buren. Has a very "product of its time" feel and that's what I think this will be viewed as for quite some years. Would love to see how the hobby discusses it 100 or so years in the future when it's a product of history rather than of modern politics.