American Liberty 225th Anniversary Silver Four-Medal Set

By the way, the 225th aniv. unc. 10 coin sets are still available at Mint.

 

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And now almost 1 AM EDT on Friday and . . . still available.



Not sure why you would compare these medals to the 2011 SAE Anniversary sets (of which I bought and still own two). How many folks collect SAE coins versus how many people have ever even heard of these medals?

Bottom line to me is that these medals are just not an attractive design and therefore of no interest. Yurz.

Interesting. Am I mistaken, or does it look like they are releasing a 2018 W proof ASE in January and then separately releasing a 2018 S proof ASE in the summer?



I find the way some people react to the whole mint process interesting. Some folks seemingly only want to buy a coin or set IF it is hard to buy. Kind of reminds me of the old joke: I would never be a member of a club which would have me as a member.

 

The packaging will be the "key" after this move.

 

Someone needs to teach the designer about hair pieces. Kind of missed it with the "stars". Even Wonder Woman's isn't that big, and she only had one!

 

No kidding
I used to have all the Congrats sets until for some reason the packaging became worth a mint.

 

If it's not hard to buy it'll be cheaper soon. The palladium coin is one of the first to break the long long line of sub-par poorly executed products. Maybe that will change in the future if the mint ever wants to return to being an elite mint of the world, but over the last decade you can count on your fingers the products that sell above issue price raw

 

Like others have said, its a medal. Never underestimate the importance of it legally being a coin. Not being legal tender simply makes it an item most coin collectors will never, ever consider buying.

It is what it is, and for some reason US collectors have been that way for the last 80 years or so.

 

Not surprising, they did that this year and it went over real well. Give it a few years and we may see them adding proofs ASE's from the other mints too.

Very true back in the late 70's people were buying up Kruggerands like crazy, so the government decided to give collectors a US gold bullion piece to keep the money here instead of going to South Africa. We got the US Gold Medallion series, medals instead of coins. Went over like a lead balloon and the people kept buying Kruggerands.

 

First day sales being reported of just a little over 16k.

Wouldn't be surprised to see these selling for melt value in 3 months.

 

Great, now you jinxed it.

 

They're going to release a reverse proof set next summer, according to the 2018 schedule.

 

I noticed that. I'm cautiously optimistic for that one.

 

"How many folks collect SAE coins versus how many people have ever even heard of these medals?"
Uhhh the same amount of people who have never heard of a 'Silver Eagle"?

You do realize that there are a LOT of folks that have no idea what a Silver Eagle is don't you? While ordering bags of Eisenhower Dollars, I pulled plenty of Silver Eagles from those bags.

BTW, I love the design. Primarily because it's not some damned President! It's a fresh new concept of Lady LIBERTY.

Almost forgot: 4:24pm Friday Evening and these are Still Available.

 

Same here on the right coast Lee.......

 

Speaking of packaging, I'm getting a little sick of the packaging on these special issues. Way too bulky and way too inefficient. Especially on these Liberty Medals.

 

Dang it. I like the look of the packaging and storage be danged.........I'll make do.

 

Well, as long as they don't screw up the 'Reverse Proofing', the sets 'might'
be popular. The announcement of the 'Enhanced Uncirculated Sets' sounded really great. Until you got the coins in hand. Then it was obvious that the US Mint cut some corners and in so doing, screwed the concept up. The EU Set kinda sucks! If they do the same with the Reverse Proof Sets, then they'll suck as well.

 

I don't know, I actually think the EU set looks nicer in hand than it does in the pics, but yeah, we'll have to see with the, uh, what are they gonna call it, the "226th Anniversary Silver Reverse Proof Set (TM) ?

 

If I really wanted it, I'd get at most one in my favorite finish, but not all four of the same design.

 

I think the biggest complaint with that set was just how stingy they were the lazing