2021 new silver eagle design reveal

I think it's a slap in the face for John Mercanti.

 

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I wonder if the CCAC gold selection was too close to the platinum bullion coin (flying eagle, sun with rays). It was the better selection, though, as the rays go with those on the obverse.

 

I stopped buying the overpriced junk that the US Mint produces decades ago. As far as wanting gold and silver bullion coins, I buy the classics.

 

New design, old design, makes little difference to me as I won't be buying any. If they come out with a really good design based upon some of our older coins, I might change my mind. I do love the Walking Liberty obverse, but I am not talking about just using an old design, I want to see a true designer come up with a new design along the lines of some of the older coins, not just a copy.

 

Good marketing plan - they'll sell a boatload of both varieties as last year/first year of issue

 

Well, sure. It's why people will buy such stuff, "Well, OK, I gotta pay double to have a complete set."

 

The best place for the Mint to hype these next issues is on the home shopping network coin collecting shows. Lots of super hyped pretty much uninteresting commemorative special issues at super inflated prices.

 

Investors/collectors will pay what it's worth to them.
if it's not worth it to you...then by all means move along!

 

It's very plausible that the entire ASE issuing of 2021 will be a full box of 20. 4 mints, 2 reverses, no fewer than 5 finishes. That would be 40 if all mints did everything, which they won't. Then if you want to pile on the special TPG labels that'll go along with it, you could have over a thousand "different" ASEs for next year.

 

Yeah we collectors lose our minds sometimes when emotion over plays common sense.

 

I've seen a lot worse from the Mint than this design.

 

Engraving is a thing of the past as far as the Mint is concerned. Gone. No more. Toast.

 

I think those are Gamble Oak leaves on that branch in the eagle's talons...

 

The silver one looks too similar to the reverse of the ike dollar imo

 

No, not stupid just greedy. The Mint knows that collectors will create a frenzy to get the old designs for 2021, and then scramble for the new designs as well.

 

You are correct sir.

 

'Pinned'..........never quite thought of it that way till you mentioned it Jeff......change is good.

 

He's had his day in the sun.......

 

A TPG smorgasbord of possibilities, and a collectors nitemare.........

 

To be honest, I'd never thought of it that way until I posted that -- but as soon as it occurred to me, I knew that was a big part of what bothered me.

Of course, that's not what's being depicted in a heraldic eagle, any more than ancient Egyptian art depicts people that have been squished flat. But I really, really prefer naturalistic renderings.