I have always appreciated the Pan Pacific series, and as a west coaster I have an affinity towards this side of the country. I just bought a NGC MS-62 gold dollar, and it really looks good. Plus I like the relatively low mintage of 15,000. I will post a picture as soon as I can figure out my Nikon D60 (help is appreciated). Any thoughts on the $2.50 gold dollar? The mintage is around 7000 or so, and I realy like the design. Something about the designs from 1907-1920s (Barber, St. Gauden, Pratt, Fraser, etc.) The half dollar is affordable as well, and then I will have to pray I find a $50 gold in spare change some where. Any thoughts on what a type set of his commerative would be worth? Have you seen all four coins together?
There would actually be five, $.50, $1, $2.5, $50 round, $50 octagonal, they came in a nice frame (which the frame alone sells for thousands of dollars these days). An 'average' set must be somewhere north of $100,000 these days.
The Panama-Pacific 2.50 is one of my personal favorites but I don't own one. If you have one, please post a picture & tell everyone the name of the animal on the obverse. Very best regards, collect89
I was thinking that on my modest budget, I could settle for one type of the $50 gold (if one is able to be found). Currently way out of my reach. Again, any thoughts on the other pieces in the set? are they movers or static. I think the animal is some cross between a horse and whale or something. I remember reading about it the other day, hippocampus or something...
I remember in my early days of collecting the full sets in frame were very expensive but out of the frame they were still expensive but nothing like the with frame sets. Oddly though you could buy the frames for about $200. You could by a set and a frame, put them together and have a framed set worth twice as much. I always thought it didn't make any sense. Now today whenever I see a framed set it is being broken up and the parts sold separately. At Central States two years ago I saw two original double sets that were going up for auction. They were numbered presentation sets with the documentation of the presentation, and they were being sold piece meal! You could buy the coins (individually), you could buy the frame , and you could buy the documentation. I just don't get it. To me those sets are much more important and valuable intact. As pieces they are just run of the mill coins, and what value are the presentation documents without the rest of the set? Very little, just a record that a set which no longer exists was once presented to so and so.
Were they originally presented as a set at the exposition or assembled thereafter? I read that the $1 gold were sold individually, as I imagine were the half and $2.5 dollar as well.
Both: as a set & individually. The sets came with two of each coin, obv & rev, and sold for about $200, with the metal frame. remeber $200 was probably a couple of months income back then.
The coins could be purchased individually or in sets. There was more than one type of set You could get a set of all the coins except the gold $50's, all the coins with one $50, all the coins with both $50's, both $50's by themselves, or a double set with two of each coin showing both sides (This set was the bargain because it cost $200, the value of the $50's. The rest of the coins came along for free). These last three sets came in hammered copper frames. But the two sets I mentioned earlier were not purchased sets but numbered presentation double sets.
I think they are a great group of coins. I also really like the silver half dollar obverse design, but they always sell for moon money. Congrats on such a nice purchase.
