Basketball Coin

Dome Shaped I like this game .
http://www.coinnews.net/2016/02/26/...al-basketball-hof-commemorative-coins-sought/
By the way it would have been the tallest mans 98th birthday monday .
http://www.sciencealert.com/it-s-the-birthday-of-the-tallest-man-who-ever-lived
Born in Alton IL

 

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Basketball coin design competition.
http://www.coinworld.com/news/us-coins/2016/03/domed-basketball-coins-for-2019.html
https://www.cointalk.com/threads/basketball-penny.206826/

 

I'm not optimistic about this one. Few modern commems have ever "done" it for me, and this one looks like a double threat of too high mintage limit and gimmicky design.

 

I like basketball too. Would love to see a commemorative coin. But why now?

(So it's the 60th. )

And why the same mintage maximums as the baseball coin? Basketball doesn't have nearly the same-size fan base.

And why does the legislation specify a dome shape? Great gimmick for 2014 baseball coin... first-time shape for U.S. Mint. But now, the novelty is old news... ebay has BIN baseball coins below the original issue price.

It just feels like there's more to this story.

 

Follow the money and you'll get to the bottom of the story. I don't know where to start exactly, but that's always a good rule of thumb.

 

Maybe the basketball HOF needs a new roof?

 

Congressman is sponsoring the bill for one of his constituents -- the Hall of Fame.

 

I don't understand what the point would be, it would clearly just be a carbon copy of the baseball design except with a basketball

 

The point is to make money for the named charity.

 

I'm in for few, and to flip.......

 

Unless you're talking about the $5 gold, I think the mintage limits are too high for flipping.

 

I should have clarified, more what is the point of the curved design again. It basically limits it to a basketball where at least baseball had a few things that could fit. The baseball was new and exciting, copying it not so much. I would say they can be more creative than that, but I am not sure they can

 

Easy to design. A basketball net on one side and a ball on the other. The only hope of "numismatic" value increase is if 85% of them come with incomplete strikes, thus making the MS and PR70's hard to obtain.

 

You're right. Forget it........I'll just add a few to the modern commem collection.

 

Villanova just won its 1st national title in 31 years against UNC 77/74 .

 

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Hey, they beat the Mint to it.

 

Sometimes all that is necessary for the 2nd adopter is to know something is feasible. There is also the benefits of not making all the mistakes. There is enough data from the Mint's experiments as reported in the press (plus physical measurements of the baseball coin) to establish the proper curvature, get an estimate of the striking pressure, know that you don't need to pre-curve the blanks, etc.

 

And I don't believe the US Mint was the first to make a domed coin either.

 

They were not, but I think they were the 1st to do copper-nickel clad (which is a much harder and less ductile material than silver).