I know the quarter came out a couple days ago, but today the 5 ounce came out. YAH!!!!! I added it to my book just know!!!! https://catalog.usmint.gov/apostle-...=CB5-_-america_the_beautiful-_-010118&start=1
You clearly weren't paying attention to the bullionista thread where they found that there's no way it can be worth getting because the silver is only worth less than $90. You know the guys - everything to them is the bullion value, and that's all the value anything has. Why is this worth $155.00?
Not a bad design. A rendering of the "ice caves" would have been cool, but the kayak would have been out of place.
If you watch APMEX and Provident you can usually get them on the same day of release for much closer to spot ... for some strange reason ... much lower than the US MInt price of $156 of $98.20 ==> https://www.apmex.com/product/152545/2018-5-oz-silver-atb-apostle-islands-national-lakeshore-wi
Those are the billion version. The $156 from the mint is for the “P” collectors version. In fact, individuals cannot purchase the bullion version directly from the mint. Only the “P” can be purchased from the mint.
The kayak should have been a birch bark canoe to represent the native American history of the area. I was at the quarter launch at Red Cliff Wisconsin this past Wednesday. Henry Buffalo, a descendent of Chief Buffalo, gave a good oral history of the Bad River and Red Cliff bands of the Chippewa tribe that settled in the Apostle Islands area. Here's a picture I took during the ceremony.
The overwhelming nature of the ATB series is literal contemporary images, to the extent possible. Some exception is being made for National Historic Monuments.