That’s the first I’ve heard tRump is the new President of Ukraine. Breaking news!

I think my favorite coin is the Homer Simpson salute to alcohol. I’ve dabbled in other country coinage. Like the queen beast coin. The new britannia. The main mint coins like royal, Perth, Australia, Canada. Some have gimmicks like sand from the sphinx, or quartz from cave, or obsidian from the island. Or rare shapes. Haven’t seen the Ukraine coin, but I think they have more to worry about than making coins. Like selling a couple of the Abrams tanks and leopard tank to russia. How to get a f35 to China. It’s astounding a comedian turned dictator is beating a janitor for the kgb.

Just as a footnote, Tom, since there really isn’t anything about honoring either black professional baseball players or women who have achieved great things that could in any way be considered the least bit “controversial” in this day and age, I’m not exactly sure how that would even apply here. Just sayin’.

Antonio,
I agree plated coins have a superior appearance to colorized ones.

I have a selectively gold plated Canadian Parks Dollar from their 2011 proof set. That’s my favourite of that type. I don’t care for the colorized coins. You’re right, to each its own. Not my cup of tea though.

I love a coin like this that appears to “explode” into your eyes!

Each to his/her own. Anyway, Antonio, who’s to judge what is attractive except each individual as it appears to them personally.

Tom, re-reading your comment again I’m sorry to have misconstrued it. Speaking generally, I’d say it’s difficult to read into why any specific coin or series doesn’t sell- and I’d hate for anyone to ever draw prejudicial conclusions based strictly on which coins someone buys (or doesn’t buy). For instance, the 2022 NLB commemorative coin sales were not that great, with many #1 low mintages for gold, silver and clad across the entire US Mint’s modern commemorative series that began in 1982. By comparison, in total sales the 2022 NPH sales were 36% better than NLB, but in historic context for commemoratives those sales were not that stellar either. Is that a knock against NLB, NPH, both of them, commemoratives in general, waning interest in coin collecting, the US Mint’s pricing, the economy in 2022, buyer fatigue, or a combination of the above?

I had read somewhere earlier (or at least implied) the low sales of the Negro commemoratives was, in part that a high percentage of collectors are white, and therefore….In all honesty it wouldn’t surprise me if that was true, but not to any great degree that was implied. Personally I wish the Mint could avoid such areas that might be controversial. I had a brother in law who wouldn’t vote for a candidate with a woman as a vice president, so I imagine if he were still alive he would not be thrilled with the women’ quarters. Personally I wish they had kept with Liberty instead of putting presidents on the coins, and now of course people complain because some of them were slave owners.

Tom, thanks for the clarification.