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I "collect" coins only to a very modest amount (vs "hoarding") so I'm not a fanatic about coins for their own sake. However, this classic design proposed for the new Palladium Eagle makes me want one just to have!

Anyone know more about them? Arrival date? It seems that were required to do a marketing study and evaluate supply, and no date yet promised?

I'm not so crazy about the obverse simply being a reproduction of the Mercury dime bust, but the reverse is stunning. I would love to stack a coin that looked like that. I wonder if TPTB within the mint understand that silver will soon become appreciably scarcer and, therefore, much harder to source, and thus to accomodate anticipated burgeoning investor demand hope to divert some of the expected flood to fertile fields yet uninundated?

beauanderos wrote:I'm not so crazy about the obverse simply being a reproduction of the Mercury dime bust, but the reverse is stunning. I would love to stack a coin that looked like that. I wonder if TPTB within the mint understand that silver will soon become appreciably scarcer and, therefore, much harder to source, and thus to accomodate anticipated burgeoning investor demand hope to divert some of the expected flood to fertile fields yet uninundated?

Both sides are reproductions, just the obverse more common (at least to us - most people have never seen it). I like them both, even if the Mercury (aka, Winged LIberty) is "well used".

I believe the choice of palladium was an overt attempt to support domestic mining of it (as I believe it was required to be domestic US palladium).

i will buy it its cool looking 2 great coins in one