400th Anniversary of the Mayflower

while poking around at the Royal mint i noticed they are selling US Peace dollars (Random Dates) and the US GLD Buffalo, i have never seen this before and i usually make a purchase or two from them every year?

 

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Yes and they sell old coins as well and graded coins. They act as a dealer as well as a mint

 

@baseball21, Interesting, thanks!

 

A Very Nice Find. So, now the world is right.


I got mine a couple of months ago . . . PCGS MS63

 

Noticed the US Mint has the Gold Mayflower coins back on sale and there are plenty of them

 

The only problem I had with the "last chance" buys from the mint was that I ended up with a not so nice coin. I bought this MacArthur Unc. $5 gold, and it was obviously marked up. It also had some spotting issues that do not show up in the photos.

 

Seriously, people don't return a previously sold out hot coin because it's perfect....

 

I was not aware that the MacArthur coin was ever "hot." People tried to capitalize on the low mintage for the Uncirculated variety.

 

That's also something people do - they spend a lot of $ to have it graded express (so it's within the US Mint return window) and if it doesn't come back a 70, they crack it out and return it.

WHen the mint does their order reconciliation, they will sometimes have a # of new stock to sell so the coin goes back on sale for a few units.

After that period, any on sale units are returns.

 

Just picked up this 400th Anniversary Reverse Proof medal in original mint packaging. Like the design, and managed to get it for original mint price. Seller’s pictures, as it is on its way. Mintage is only 20,000.

 

It wouldn’t be express it’d have to be walkthrough. The mint return window is too short for express. I doubt most would pay for Walkthrough only to return. More likely it would be cracked out and sold raw. Neither idea would be bright enough however to offset the loss.

 

Walkthrough would eat up basically all the profit on most things anyway. The defective returns are from collectors that either didn’t like the look or knew it had no chance at a 70

 

Best Answer, screened then returned.

 

I am not a fan of the design.

 

Because it looks like a cartoon. I wonder if any of the designers have a grounding in tradiitional metal arts. Maybe they can take a tour of the Metropolitian. They seemingly have zero feel for the material or the methods. And you see what other countries are doing and you are left with head scratches wondering why out coins are consistiantly so badly designed.

 

BTW - the Mayflower was from Holland, FWIW.

 

In the back of my mind, I knew that the Mayflower was from Holland. Is there any records of the people that sailed on the Mayflower? Any Dutch citizens? I know that the English people that sailed had to go to Holland because the Church of England would not allow any other churches in England. Or that's the way I remember it.