Poll: 2016 gold Mercs: Who's in, who's out?

Not yet but if gold doesn't get back down below 1,250 an ounce soon the mint will raise it's gold prices

 

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All, I's got to say Brian, is thank heaven for Walmart........they let me camp out in the parking lot and let me use the bathrooms......and they don't call the cops.....

 

Lol. Didn't you say you lived in the store for a few weeks before they caught you? Lol

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That was my brother Frank........@treashunt.........

 

@Treashunt

 

He does it a lot during 'tax' season........

 

Wellll...whatever the amount of gold it takes to make it the original size.

 

you called?

 

Peanut gallery lovin on the poor people... At least the poor schmucks down on their luck are good for joke material..

 

Only if you don't live among them.

 

But they won't make them the original size - that's already been determined. The dime isn't, and the quarter and the half won't be.

 

Is the gold dime going to be larger or smaller then a real dime?

 

Smaller, by some 8% in diameter. Now admittedly, some people claim that's not significant. However, research shows that only about 1-1/2% is required to create a visually obvious difference.

Interestingly, the difference, 8%, is the same difference between a quarter and the small dollar or SBA. Remember, we're talking side-by-side obviousness.

 

See post #47 for specs.

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Hard to picture 10 dimes weighing an Ounce....

 

Because gold is heavier than lead. Its really interesting if you ever get a chance to pick up a large gold bar. Feels like a block of lead.

Despite some of the talk of needing a microscope to see the coin, there was an article that said these will be the same diameter as a 1/10tho AGE, just slightly thinner since they're 24k pure while the AGEs are 22k. Having owned 1/10th ozers I can say I didn't need a microscope to see them and they are roughly dime sized.

 

16.5 mm as opposed to 17.9 mm......pretty close. I concede your point Vess. I don't need a microscope, just my glasses.......

 

Smells like another misstep by the Mint to me.

 

That's their interpretation of split bands? Ugh. At least they aren't laser frosting these. That travesty should never be anywhere near the classical goodness of these timeless designs.

Still undecided. Buy these, or buy more originals? I'll likely hold off. If they sell out fast and I'm on the outside looking in, I'll be fine. Life moves on.

If they don't sell out, I'll revisit the possibility if I have the cash.

Rick L.

 

Prices came out... yowza.
https://s3.amazonaws.com/public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2016-08702.pdf