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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Chris McDaniel, post: 2599997, member: 84053&quot;]Thanks, Earnie 11.&nbsp;&nbsp; Have thought about Calders and here&#039;s what I think. First of all, it was near the end of the series, &#039;83, and Calder was the 3rd lowest reported mintage.&nbsp; (84&#039;S were the lowest).&nbsp; Note from the mintage figures the Mint was making fewer and fewer as they went along.&nbsp; It was clear this series was not being collected, just bought and sold as bullion by dealers working the spread. Second, no one had really ever heard of Calder....except artists.&nbsp; I never had, not like Louie Armstrong or Mark Twain.&nbsp;&nbsp; So, he didn&#039;t have the fame attached to his coin.&nbsp;&nbsp; Third, the image was not so attractive...OK, ugly.....at least to me. Calder looks like a drunk.&nbsp; And last, gold was losing value and also interest by 1984 after the big runup that topped in 1981.&nbsp; No one was really collecting gold in 1984, altho they were buying K-rands hand over fist as bullion.&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Put it all together and the Calder&#039;s went unloved.</p><p><br /></p><p>Heller&nbsp; &nbsp; <a href="http://www.numismaster.com/ta/numis/Article.jsp?ArticleId=24969" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.numismaster.com/ta/numis/Article.jsp?ArticleId=24969" rel="nofollow">http://www.numismaster.com/ta/numis/Article.jsp?ArticleId=24969</a><a href="http://www.numismaster.com/ta/numis/Article.jsp?ArticleId=24969" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.numismaster.com/ta/numis/Article.jsp?ArticleId=24969" rel="nofollow">http://www.numismaster.com/ta/numis/Article.jsp?ArticleId=24969</a>&nbsp; reports the Calders as the most rare of those remaining.&nbsp; No way to prove that of course, but.....APMEX may be onto some of this info, since APMEX was recently charging $795 for that half ounce gold piece (late 2016) while selling the others at 14 bucks over melt.&nbsp;&nbsp; And they were selling!&nbsp; APMEX doesn&#039;t make it easy to find these, but the one or two they had were always quickly sold.&nbsp; Here&#039;s that link:&nbsp; </p><p><a href="http://www.apmex.com" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.apmex.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.apmex.com</a>search?q=U.S.%20Mint%201%20oz%20Gold%20Commemorative%20Arts%20Medal%20(Random)</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>For years these things were unknown.&nbsp; Red Book didn&#039;t even include them I think until 2011.&nbsp; And then skipped them a year or two before adding them to the book again.&nbsp; I&#039;ve been to coin shows, and 100% of the dealers there have never heard of them.&nbsp; I have to show them the Red Book page. And I can repeat that experience today. </p><p><br /></p><p>Now, I know Marion Anderson is headed for one of the circulating Bills, along with Harriet Tubman <span style="color: #ff0000">EDITED: political statements not allowed by rules. There is an alternate site called Partisanlines.com where political, religious, and world events can be discussed.</span></p><p><br /></p><p>So, once Anderson pops up on a Five or a Ten, what do you think will happen to this series when it&#039;s re-discovered?</p><p>Somebody is collecting these besides me.&nbsp; I monitor APMEX for these and find one or two for sale, and then they are gone in a couple of days.&nbsp; And the Calder&#039;s carry a $200 premium lately at Apmex.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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