Disabled Vets Commem

Thank you Schatzy for your gift to our Brother Veterans! Your act of recognition and thanks will touch the heart of each Veteran to whom you bestow your gift. Your gift is the living memorial to their sacrifice.

 

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Grandpacoin,
Thank you for your service and "Welcome Home Brother!"

 

I liked the boots.

 

Good for you. You deserve it.

 

These are selling ultra fast......HSN has now got there hands on some (and wanting more)..They are asking $135.00 a piece.!!

Someone hear said they saw them on TV for that....How did they get them so soon?.. , and how did they get Anac's to grade them even sooner?

Anyway, with the limited mintage and a great cause, these are soon to be gone...

Price - 39.95 proof - $10.00 (going to Veteren memorial) = 29.95
Price - 33.95 mint - $10.00 (going to veteren memorial) = 23.95

Seems like a deal to me..., And most other Americans...Order yours today, or miss out....:hail:

 

I ordered the uncirculated but may go back and order the proof as well. Which one do you think will be the best investment?

 

I think the max. on these is 350,000? Most folks opt. for the proof so mintage numbers for the unc.'s should be lower. At any rate, that's the usual scenario for commem's......

 

Most likely - but they are an investment for today's vets and tomorrows children. Only bought one of each - and will do the same with the BSA issue as both are things I grew up with and believe in.

 

The funny part about this design, and I don't mean funny, is that most of the medical problems vets face will be psychological in nature not physical. I guess it's just tough to show PTSD on a coin eh?

In my area, we just had a 23-year old vet shoot his wife in the face after drinking too much. I'm guessing we're not going to see that on a commem any time soon either. Hopefully, these coin purchases will help those with injuries that don't show.

 

My personal opinion is that with this mintage it will not be a good investment - maybe short term, but not long term. Having said that I would rather the $10 went to assisting disabled vets rather than building a memorial. Not that a memorial is not a bad idea, I would rather the disabled vets receive more assistance. Anyway my order is in place.

 

I believe the Uncs are ALWAYS rarer than the proofs, but not always higher priced.

Assuming the Foundation is able to raise matching funds.

 

'Assuming the Foundation is able to raise matching funds.'

Interesting tidbit;I didn't know there was such a stipulation on the funds. You mean the foundation has to match dollar for dollar to get the full benefit of the $10.00 coin surcharge? Is the match requirement true of all modern commemoratives?

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'Assuming the Foundation is able to raise matching funds.'

Interesting tidbit;I didn't know there was such a stipulation on the funds. You mean the foundation has to match dollar for dollar to get the full benefit of the $10.00 coin surcharge? Is the match requirement true of all modern commemoratives?

 

Not quite as bad a design as the Little Rock, but close. I still ordered one of each. I have all the modern commems, can't let my series end.

 

Veterans Commemoratives

Hopefully the funds will go where they are promised. This is an excellent cause and I pray the funds aren't mismanaged by the Mint or other parties involved.
I haven't heard of the matching funds though.
I ordered two of each...a pair to keep and a pair to see how the market reacts.

 

I placed my order at 3pm on the 25th...

1 unit backordered. Expected to ship on 03/17/2010.

Seems silly to release a coin on the 25th if you can not deliver it till over 2 weeks later.

 

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The 98,358 are #s for the first 3 days !!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Yes and Yes. They don't come up with the match they don't get the money. There has only been one case that I know of where the surcharges didn't get to the organization they were intended for and that was the National Parks back in 1999 (Yellowstone National Park Dollar). The National Parks commission didn't have a method of raising the money and the government gave it away to another organization in Missouri that was able to match the funds. (There were a couple of other cases where Congress passed legislation to let the orgnaization have the money early before they raised the matching funds (One of the Olympics I recall) and they did finally raise them, Then there was the Jackie Robinson commemorative (1997) that had a million dollars of their surcharges ($2.45 million total) diverted away from them and given to the United States Botanical Garden. Seems the director of the Botanical Garden was the wife of the person who wrote the legislation to divert the funds. Guess they felt the sales of the Botanical Gardens commemorative that year weren't good enough ($3.2 million in surcharges) Yes they earned almost a million dollars more in surcharges and then took a million dollars away from the Jackie Robinson Foundation.

A couple others were able to match by the skin of their teeth, and in at least one case a extension of the time to raise the funds was granted.

I've never like the little game myself since if they don't match they don't get the money and they don't tell the buyers that. To me if the advertised recipient doesn't get the money it smacks of raising money under false pretenses and the money should be returned. See the National Parks mentioned earlier. Those coins were sold to people who were told their surcharges would go to the National Parks, and then it went to someone else instead. (It's also a little annoying that if you were to donate the money to the organization directly it would be tax deductible, but if you donate via the surcharge, which you have no choice but to pay, it isn't deductible.)

 

Schatzy - The American Veterans Disabled for Life Dollars, which went on sale February 25, 2010, sold a combined 98,358 coins, representing just over 28% of the maximum authorized mintage of 350,000 coins. The total was broken down as 32,149 of the uncirculated version of the coin and 66,209 of the proof version of the coin.
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I just saw that (was going to post here then saw it was already here). 2:1 ratio of proof to uncirculated. I only bought one of each (which I'm keeping), so I think I'm going to grab a couple Unc's. With mint issues, I love it when I can flip a couple extras and cover the cost of my keepers. I don't have the luxury of much "extra" money to spend on coins, but every year there's something that you can pretty much guarantee a 100% return on if your choices and timing are right. These, I believe, will be one of those things.