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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;yakpoo, post: 1073892, member: 18157&quot;]We&#039;re about to descend into the &quot;<b>Dark Ages</b>&quot; of First Spouse&nbsp; collecting. The next four (4) years (2011-2014) will really test the&nbsp; meddle (no pun intended) of the &quot;true&quot; First Spouse aficionado.</p><p><br /></p><p>Lofty gold prices and a string of (mostly) forgettable presidents brings&nbsp; the collectibility of their spouses into question. This should really&nbsp; turn most fair-weather FS collectors away from the series...if they&nbsp; haven&#039;t left already. </p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;Alice Paul&quot;? ...fergetaboutit! It&#039;ll be tough enough to think up a design for &quot;Francis Cleveland&quot;&nbsp; once...but TWICE?! ...and &quot;Lou Hoover&quot;?...sounds like a baseball manager. I wouldn&#039;t be surprised to see some issues sell&nbsp; less than 2,000 coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>...but if you&#039;re one of the intrepid few that can hang on until Eleanor&nbsp; Roosevelt comes around (Dec. 2014)...your loyalty may very well be&nbsp; rewarded...with a beautiful collection many collectors may want, but few&nbsp; will be able to call their own.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;<b>2011</b></p><p>&nbsp; Eliza Johnson</p><p>&nbsp; Julia S. Grant</p><p>&nbsp; Lucy Hayes</p><p>&nbsp; Lucretia Garfield</p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp; <b>2012</b></p><p>&nbsp; Alice Paul</p><p>&nbsp; Frances Cleveland</p><p>&nbsp; Caroline Harrison</p><p>&nbsp; Frances Cleveland</p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp; <b>2013</b></p><p>&nbsp; Ida McKinley</p><p>&nbsp; Edith Roosevelt</p><p>&nbsp; Helen Taft</p><p>&nbsp; Ellen and Edith Wilson</p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp; <b>2014</b></p><p>&nbsp; Florence Harding</p><p>&nbsp; Grace Coolidge</p><p>&nbsp; Lou Hoover</p><p>&nbsp; <span style="color: red">Anna Eleanor Roosevelt</span></p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp; <b>2015</b></p><p>&nbsp; <span style="color: red">Elizabeth Truman</span></p><p>&nbsp; <span style="color: red">Mamie Eisenhower</span></p><p>&nbsp; <span style="color: red">Jacqueline Kennedy</span></p><p>&nbsp; <span style="color: red">Claudia Taylor Johnson</span></p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp; <b>2016</b></p><p>&nbsp; <span style="color: red">Patricia Ryan Nixon</span></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;*Elizabeth Ford</p><p>*Nancy Reagan</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp; *Can be honored with a First Spouse coin (President deceased for more&nbsp; than two (2) years). Not sure if they will skip over Rosalind Carter,&nbsp; though. The <a href="http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode31/usc_sec_31_00005112----000-.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode31/usc_sec_31_00005112----000-.html" rel="nofollow">law</a> is a bit vague in this area.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Are there any First Spouse collectors still out there? </b>I feel like Will Smith in &quot;I Am Legend&quot;...sending radio messages to anyone that might still be alive. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie3" alt=":(" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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