Anybody think the mint could/would ever produce a high or ultra high relief silver eagle? It sure would have been cool to have that to celebrate the 25th anniversary.
Basically, if they make a first anything change to the eagles, it becomes a must buy in its first incarnation, less so afterward - short of a low mintage key. Here's to hoping they come up with a good variety of such changes, maybe once every five years for future anniversary sets! We can hope.
High relief ASE is a great idea. That'd be one nice coin. :thumb: I'd settle for a piedfort version of the ASE
I would much rather them make a change to allow the public to buy bullion eagles directly from the mint.
I read something about a 5 coin set being produced for the 25th anniversary - anyone know what's in that set?
When we say "Ultra-high relief", are we talking about something like the 2009 UHR AGE? The first thought that comes to mind is the added pressure that would be required (soft golf vs hard(er) silver). The 2009 UHR required two (2) strikes with 65 metric tons of pressure. I've read where coin presses can use over 250 metric tons of pressure, so this is probably a non-issue. Note: I see that Palladium and Silver are right next to each other on the Periodic Table (46 and 47) and they've already approved the Palladium UHR coin. I guess it should work.
Possibly. The little book that came with the UHR said it was actually an early 1930s specification and artist design. However they lacked the technical abilities at the time to reliably produce the coin and they ended up getting rid of most of the relief. The 2009 UHR was a 1 year only revival of that old UHR with a few changes since they felt they could produce one now. This is one of the reasons the UHR is also such a beautiful design versus most of the horrible cartoonish, too literal, artist designs coming out of the mint now. Maybe silver isn't worth enough as a metal for them to try and do it.
