Excuse my ignorance, but what's the difference between one (1) ounce of silver metal and one (1) ounce of Bullion? Either way, I am going for it and if there are any Gold of one of these coins. It has been my experience that when I see an item in the US Mint, I will not get it there. Depending how much I like it, I'll blow a wad of money to get one and hide the bank statement.
It’s the same thing. They can this a medal because it doesn’t have any monetary value attached to it. I would most imagine the obverse and reverse have A medal orientation too.
Well your post begs the GTG question: what grade is your Flowing Hair dollar? I'm going to go for AU-50. How close or far away am I? I like the half-dollar but it is a chunk of change for 1/2 oz of silver. Like yourself I once was interested in a real specimen of the 1795 half in high grade and narrowly missed buying an actual 1794 half (today maybe VF+ or EF?) in a Philadelphia auction.
It is graded EF-40. The technical grade is probably EF-45. It has luster within the letters and devices and shows luster under a light. Not all Flowing Hair Dollars were struck equally. Some varieties were struck with less than all of the detail showing. They went from Mint State to EF very quickly with not much time to make the AU grade. This is one of them. It's hard to find one of the sharply struck varieties. I have looked for a number of years.
I was always hoping to get one but they're expensive. In fact my phone # ends in 1795 as I was always wanting a Flowing Hair $. The '94 is quite rare & I'm basically a type collector. If you ever decide to sell yours contact me. I'm not a US collector (Roman, & other Ancients, Latin American & Polish). I did manage to get this (unslabbed but graded EF) out of an auction years ago.
I'm going to buy one. I've paid premiums for a lot of the Intaglio 2 oz rounds with high relief, classic designs and they're very, very nice. I'd be thrilled to get a privy marked one but don't have to have it. Kind of neat they did that. Wondering what those will be worth compared to the others when it's all said and done. There was a five per household limit, now dropped down to a one per household. They must figure on it selling out quickly. I'll buy it for the collector value, not as a bullion piece, though that's how some will view it. Value wise, it appears the last couple years of Liberty medals in OGP are selling for anywhere from $70 to $111 so it's not like they have dropped to bullion value. Only 2% of these will have the privy so I'm betting those will always be worth more than issue price. The rest will hover around issue value or a little less until silver goes over $100/ounce I would imagine. Will agree, these should be priced more around 60-70 bucks but it's the US mint and they'll sell out at $104 no problem. I think they'll be gone within hours.
Well it appears that the privy mark is a simple punch. Thus if you don't get one from the mint, couldn't you could simply stamp your own privy mark into your 1794/2024 dollar? After all there's nothing illegal about that and people have counterstamped US coins for centuries. I might go for the half-dollar as I'm more of a half-dollar collector. But perhaps I should put my $ into a nice Franklin? I really liked the Franklin mini-series on Netflicks or Amazon and recently read the Isaacson bio on Franklin.
Yeah….. I say the same thing every time I see a slabbed ASE selling for more than melt. But every now and again a trinket will catch my eye……
I have to say that this purchase experience went much smoother than the 2021 Morgan fiasco. They may have figured it out. ...either that or not many people wanted this medal.