I saw on another forum that MCM is paying $3000 for any ungraded UHR with it's box. Certainly this coin has been one of the deals of the new century given that 2 years ago, you could have bought as many of these as you wanted from the Mint.
I am still smarting over missing that one. Since at the time they were selling for a premium over spot, I foolishly thought they would soon be seen in local dealers stock, where I could pick them up for close to spot.
I pulled mine out of the safe a few days ago and noticed it has a small, reddish brown spot on it. Great. Still in the box and plastic mint holder. Can't figure that out.
If the FSMS70 ever sells at $5000, mine goes up for sale the next day. I have seen them listed at that, but never sold at that price. I'm tracking one right now at a BIN price of $5100.
After reading this thread, I went through some of my old links and files today to revisit some of the news articles I followed on the 2009 UHR. I thought I'd put them together to share with this thread for some perspective on how far these coins have come since that one-year special issue coin was released. Enjoy! US Mint 2009 UHR Double Eagle Limits Lifted Sept. 21 from Coin News.net on September 16th 2009 Final US Mint 2009 UHR $20 Gold Coin Sales at 115K from Coin News.net on January 13th 2010 2009 UHR $20 Gold Coin Values Robust from Coin News.net on February 19th 2010. "By the 31st of December (2009), the last day in which the Mint was accepting orders for the UHRs, their $1,489 purchase price was the highest it had been all year — exactly three hundred dollars over where they started. Final sales figures show a total of 115,178 were sold." Finally, Coin World (Amos Publishing) ran a story in the January 17th 2011 (Vol. 52, Issue 2649) issue titled, "U.S. Mint will melt 85,000+ 2009 UHR coins. Fate of 62,240 UHR blanks to be determined." From the story (see attached image) There were over 67,240 unstruck gold blanks for the UHR coins left over and some 85,227 stamped coins sitting at West Point Mint waiting to be melted down for other coin programs after the coins went off-sale. I didn't order my own UHR until October of 2009 after the price had moved up to $1489 above the initial offer price. I knew these one-year of issue special coins would continue to be great buys. Even buying late in the year I got a fantastic looking example. Many people said these coins would just be considered bullion someday. How glad am I to see that hasn't happened. Still, I wouldn't sell mine... it's a beauty!
Aesthetic appeal. It exists. I'm rereading Double Eagle right now, in fact, by Alison Frank, on the 33 copy.
I bought in at $1,189.00 It's a beautiful coin. I'd like to see the same design on a larger coin. I saw, what I was told, was an original Saint UHR at a Whitman coin show awhile back and it's thinner with a larger diameter. A couple of years ago the rep (retired Mint employee) working the Mint booth at Penn station DC told me the 2009 UHR was a replica of the original UHR. apparently not or the coin I saw at the Whitman show was misrepresented.
The 2009 UHR is a replica of the original UHR design. The reason you are seeing the difference between the two coins is because the US Mint lacked the technical ability to produce the 1930s coins to the UHR spec. They simply couldn't produce the extreme relief and ended up flattening the coin some. In 2009 they could produce the original design and it looks more like the original than the originals did.
I wish I would have picked one of these up when they came out. To be honest I couldn't believe the hype at first. I remember these were selling for insane prices at MS 70, and they seemed to be a dime a dozen. Now it seems prices are insane in any grade...
" . . . In 2009 they could produce the original design and it looks more like the original than the originals did. . . . " That's saying something.
I wish I had bought one of these, but it's way out of my budget and I didn't collect in 2009 when it came out...
I knew this would be a winner and was actually my first major purchase/investment. Only regret is that I wish I had gotten both of mine graded! Got one graded ms70 by NGC and its twin is still living in the OGP Even it it was only worth melt I would still love it though, amazingly beautiful coin!
I started stacking in 08 but didnt have $ for the uhr first gold piece was in 2010 AGE proof, in time I hope to buy or trade for one, its a beautiful coin
got mine at about 1200.00 from the mint and sold about year 1/2 later for about 1750.00. I was stoked but hearing these prices WOW do I wish I hadn't sold it, then again I wish I had not sold a bunch of my silver @18.00 oz. 2 years ago. Beautiful coin though.