Edmund C. Moy signature coins

I have one signed by Steve Carlton, only because I had seen him pitch for the Phillies many times.
http://www.stevecarlton.com/#!biography/cle6

 

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I'd take a Moy signature over a Philip N. Diehl. That guy has sold out to the infomercial gold hawkers. I'd probably vomit a little in my mouth then crack the coin if, say, I got one in an auction box lot or something.

Aside from my Dan Carr anacs slabbed coins I only have 1 other signature slab. It's a 1986 statue of liberty commemorative in a slab commemorating 50,000,000 authentications by PCGS and signed by David Hall. 500 of them were randomly put in submission returns in 2014 and I happened to be one of the lucky ones.

@messydesk, I like how you had her sign that Sac directly. That's kinda neat!

 

Except for a few exceptions, I don't think autographed coins will add anything to a coins future value. The exception? PCGS as far as I've seen, uses real autographs, so I've gone with them on the Baseball Hall of Fames Series and they also used real autographs on their "American Heroes" Series- Lance Armstrong, Jessica Lange. etc. Most People didn't read the fine print on NGC Hall of Fame slabs stating they were not actual autographs (most of their signatures were of players long gone)

Having a Mint Director, Grading Service Exec, etc., really doesn't mean much to me INHO.

 

So you guys don't think having signature coins with their own pops will give them more value? I would have to disagree, there are always going to be Collectors that will seek out lower pop coins

 

I think you mean lower pop slabs and no, we don't think so. Maybe to the beginning, uneducated collector but that's about it. They are a humorous gimik of numismatics brought forth to line the pockets of the tpgs for the most part. Absolutely nothing more

 

Yes, the same people who pay extra money for First Strikes.

 

That ain't Goose Gossage, that's Hulk Hogan.

 

And he looks like he's suffering from 'writers cramp'.

 

till he got paid LOL

 

Lance Armstrong would not have become a looser if only he had tightened up !!

 

Agree, decades from now, hardly any collectors will remember him.

 

Moy was responsible for modernizing the mint, and, more importantly, for the 2009 ultra high relief. That alone is worth celebrating just due to the history of the 1907 high relief. It took 102 years and Ed Moy for Augustus Saint Gaudens vision to become a reality. That's one reason why I think his signature coins will be highly regarded. Not so sure about Mercanti, Dielhl, etc., but Moy was an outstanding mint director.

 

Mercanti with his role in the Silver Eagle will very likely be remembered by more collectors than Moy

 

ell, folks are certainly entitled to the opinions that Ed Moy would have you believe but I think he was nothing more than a political appointee, schooled and experienced in Human Resources who had absolutely no idea what numismatics was nor how to run a mint.

IMO, he did not leave soon enough.

As for "modernizing" the US Mint? I laugh!

 

I mentioned previously that I wouldn't collect these at all.

That said, if they were competitively priced with regular slabs (i.e. same price), and you were collecting the ASE series anyway, it would sort of be neat to see an autographed slabbed series of each Chief Engraver (at least for their first year on the job). The caveat, at least for me, would be that the autograph must come from the acting Chief Engraver for the year of the given ASE - I don't get why they didn't associate the autographs according to their respective tenure years.

So, to me, it's not worth it to pay the extra money for it, but I don't think there's anything to lose to buy them if there's not difference in price with a regular slab.

 

The consensus seems to be that the signature doesn't add to the value. However, I'd like to point out the GSA Silver Dollars. Some are worth thousands of dollars over what the same coin is worth without the GSA case. Hell - you can even have the cases graded now. Is a plastic case worth more than the coin within?? I can't help but wonder if someday in the future some of you aren't wishing you had bought some of signed NGC or PCGS graded coins back when they were cheap.

 

I'm a big Nolan Ryan Fan, so for me having his signature on a coin slab is worth a premium. I just obtained the 1992 Olympics Commemorative signed by him and haven't had time to photograph it yet, that is my favorite.

 

Always nice to have the signature of the person whose on the coin

 

Actually, Moy was a long time coin collector.

"A coin collector for most of his life, Moy first became fascinated by different coin designs when he worked the cash register at his parents’ Chinese-American restaurant in Waukesha, Wisconsin. His appointment as Director of the US Mint fulfilled a childhood dream and put Moy at the helm of the world’s largest manufacturer of coins and medals.

During his tenure, the US Mint would experiment with many new coins and series aimed at increasing interest in modern coin collecting, including Reverse Proof finishes, the 2009 Ultra High Relief $20 and other interesting issues. Moy also oversaw the launch of the Presidential Dollar program in 2007 and the America the Beautiful Quarters program in 2009 as well as completion of the monumental 50 State Quarters program."

I think it was because he was and still is as a long time coin collector that he actually did so much for collectors while heading the mint, like the high relief coins and other advances in minting.