Commemorative Coins

I thought I saw a post about a Commemorative Coin Society but cannot locate it. Does anyone remember such a post?

 

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maybe?
https://www.money.org/forums/clubs/society-for-united-states-commemorative-coins

 

Interestingly they seem to have disbanded and left everything to the ANA. Wonder if anything else emerged. Commemoratives are not the most popular collecting area, but interesting.

 

Anyone out there interested in starting a study of commemorative coins?

 

There are many ppl here who collect Commemorative Coins.
I love them myself.

 

I have recently take up interest in them as well. I've yet to purchase anything but I've been eyeballing some of the 1893 Columbian Expo's on eBay

 

Be careful though, if you peruse Alibaba there many very convincing commem fakes on that website. Made me stop collecting for a bit until I learn more.

 

If you buy PCGS slabbed coins you have some protection as well as PayPal.

I am about to get into the Stone Mountain commemorative in a big way which got me to thinking about commemoratives in general.

 

Commems rule and they are interesting and challenging to collect. I have presented on this topic at my coin club and there was interest and audience engagement. I would be very interested in this topic.

 

Well maybe we get a thread or two going on topics. My main interest right now is die varieties for the Stone Mountain Half which I think is virgin territory as to research. My usual ventures into collecting is to go deep on a very narrow subject rather than cover the water.

 

I own a few. They are very interesting. I find it sad that the US can’t come up with anything to match them in this day and era.

 

Fun coins with some great history. Q. David Bowers wrote the book on these. It's interesting how the prices on these coins never really change much. They go up a little and they go back down. Not a lot of demand that last very long.
I always thought that at some point the pricing would go crazy with folks collecting them. Just don't seem to happen.

 

@green18

 

I have put together a half dozen of the ones I found most beautiful, and an Oregon Trail is on the way.

This is a particular favorite.

 

I find the Swiatek book much better than the Bowers book. Love commems! And now you can buy them at a fraction of where they were price wise at their peak. I've been focusing on the 66 & 67 grades.

 

This coin is not mine. It created a lot of talk many years ago. I think it sold for something like 50K.

 

Not today, HawkeEye, thanks