I love watching the coin shows on tv. One in particular talks alot about burnish die coins. What is a burnish die? And what makes them so collectable?
Then quit watching that show for they don't know what they are talking about - the dies aren't burnished, the coin planchets are. Burnished is just another word for polished. And there is nothing that makes them any more collectible than any other coin - they are just different.
sbell1: Be careful, if you keep watching those shows you may continue to learn the wrong info. Instead, buy some good references (start with the Red Book) and read as much as you can. You can never read too much.
burnishing Burnishing is a method of polishing which is different from methods that use abrasives in that no metal is removed. The idea is that a harder polished material is rubbed on a softer one to move molecules around on the surface. Dies are sometimes burnished before they are heat-treated... afterwards it becomes almost impossible to do so. Coin planchets destined for collector coins (rather than business strikes) are often burnished by tumbling them in a barrell with hardened steel balls to polish them up before striking.
On the contrary, I think their low mintages make them very collectible. The 2007 silver eagle with the w mint mark is only the secnd issue in the series. The first in the series had a mintage of 470,000. We don't know what the mintage is yet for the 2007 issue, they will make them to demand through the rest of the year but I can see them ending production early in order to make the 2008 business strike. I'm looking for a mintage of around 1,000,000 if not a little under. When you consider that the lowest mintage for the buiness strike silver eagle is 3,000,000. I think the 07 will be very collectible as the years go by. Ofcourse it won't duplicate the sucess of the first issue but I can see it becoming a $100.00 coin (MS69) and with an issue price of $23.00. You gotta love that.
You misunderstood my comment Andrew. I said - any more collectible than any other coin. That's because I believe all coins are equally collectible.
I did misread and can't agree more. There is something out there for everyone and people will collect anything and everything...and I mean everything.
