Basketball Hall of Fame relocating launch event for commemorative coins

From Coin World:

In a bid to help contain the spread of the coronavirus, the NCAA canceled the entire men’s basketball tournament, and with it, a special launch ceremony planned for April 4 during Final Four weekend in Atlanta for the 2020 Basketball Hall of Fame commemorative coins.

The coin program is still going to be released by the U.S. Mint April 4, but as of March 12 the relocation of the launch event was still being planned by the Hall of Fame.

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https://www.coinworld.com/news/us-c...locating-launch-event-for-commemorative-coins

Will this action affect sales of the coins?

 

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Another curved coin........blech! ~ Chris

 

For sure. To what extent we will have to see, but people getting caught up in march madness could very easily have bought one especially if they were sold at games. The coin itself the design is very weak so without march madness or basketball or sports at all it will get 0 help and have to stand on its own

 

The mint just makes a bit too many items a year to collect. Meow gave up on buying a lot of US mint stuff due to the poor quality control and expense of the multitude of items.

 

Curved and colorized! If only it also played music when you shook it...

 

Just remember, if everybody's too busy hunkering down to buy coins, that's one recipe for record low mintages...

 

Mintages are low because no one seems to want the average commems. Except the high profile ones like the moon ones or the other gimmicky curved ones.

 

Mainly because most of the time even when it's a good topic, the design committee picks a horrendous design that was far from the best choice

 

Just remember, this one's double-gimmicky, with curvature and colorization.

I feel like this is a Mint milestone worthy of observation. Personally, I'm observing it by griping rather than buying. I have a really poor track record of predicting popular releases, though.

 

Why no scratch and sniff coins?

 

Color was really overdue and can be done very well as the world mints have shown us. That said the designs picked is awful for a curved coin so it could easily be a disaster all around

 

leave it to a cat to say...

 

Meow?

 

They could release that in back yard and I wouldn't attend.

 

DON'T GIVE THEM ANY IDEAS!!!