The United States Mint this past weekend published a release date and coin images of their limited-edition 2022 National Purple Heart Hall of Honor Colorized Silver Dollar.
Pre-ordering opens for the colorized silver dollar on March 24 at noon Eastern Time. The coin, priced at $95 and limited to 25,000, is one of the eight products to commemorate the National Purple Heart Hall of Honor, which was established to recognize the sacrifice of America’s service members who were killed or wounded in action.
Pre-ordering started Feb. 24 for the other seven products, including $5 gold coins, silver dollars and clad half dollars at current prices from $33 to $811.75. Their sales through March 6 are:
- 2022-W Proof $5 Purple Heart Gold Coin (1,554)
- 2022-W Uncirculated $5 Purple Heart Gold Coin (949)
- 2022-W Proof Purple Heart Silver Dollar (23,403)
- 2022-W Uncirculated Purple Heart Silver Dollar (7,179)
- 2022-S Proof Purple Heart Half Dollar (11,846)
- 2022-D Uncirculated Purple Heart Half Dollar (7,309)
- 2022 Purple Heart Three-Coin Proof Set (2,840)
The Purple Heart colorized silver dollar carries the same designs as the regular silver dollars.
Its difference is the addition of purple shading around the bust of George Washington within the design’s depiction of the Purple Heart medal.
The shipping date of the colorized coin remains "TBD," as does its limit of one coin per household. The other seven commemorative products are expected to begin shipping on June 8, 2022. They no longer have any household order limits.
Information about the products is available from the U.S. Mint’s page of Purple Heart commemorative coins.
This one could probably sell out in 24-30 hours, and it has the nicer, sturdy clam-shell case packaging.
25,000 limit 1 per household it could sell out in minutes
Yepperdoodles SENZA – minutes 😮
I think you mean minutes instead of hours Rich 😉
Chris, to be conservative I think it will sell out sometime during the first 24 hours of sales.
Yep Rich it’ll sell out that day.
Rich,
Congrats you are the unquestionable Winner and Recipient of today’s “First One Done Award” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72PWMeaStY0
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I’ll have to admit the ‘colorization’ on this one does sense for this coin and appears well done but I still will not get one as I am vehemently against owning painted coins (or medals or what have you)
I’m happy with the purple cardboard even that’s an improvement but this thing is expensive too, as usual. And only 2 days after the 2nd series of quarters and in the same month as Gold Coins WTF are they trying to break me.
SENZA,
If you come clean with them as to what it is you know about Area 52 there will no longer be any need on their part to break you. Just go ahead and spill the beans!
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Antonio,
I’m with you there; in fact, Mr. Bean humor is top flight. I just thought that cartoon deserved its rightful place in the Coinnews Hall of Fame.
As does this, one much more indicative of Mr. Bean himself…
He’s a master of comedy. Black Adder always got a good laugh from me.
Guys it’s Purple you have to love it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJunCsrhJjg
Agreed, SENZA; purple, haze or otherwise, is always a great color choice!
c q, I’m with you in reference to ‘painted’ coins. If you’re a PH recipient, then you have the real thing. Why anyone would want to pay $95 for this is a mystery to me. I thought people were complaining about paying $85 for the Morgans and Peace dollars last year. Personally, I’m glad I bought all I could as the ones that didn’t grade MS70 or MS69 are selling for $150. Does anyone here think this commemorative will command a price tag of $165 next year? Also, I’m curious as to how long the ‘colorized’ portion of a coin… Read more »
Major D and Larry T,
Excellent and very relevant points on both your parts. We really don’t know how well colorization will stand the test of time; it could last forever or flake off after a number of years. The ostensible reason for the higher $95 price tag is the cost of the outsourcing of the color application process, a task which is clearly not part of the original minting of the coin. Whether or not that will as such carry over into future premium values remains to be seen.
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The Proof Quarter set sold out in 10 min. Hopefully this was only the first batch and more will be made.
With Nickel hitting $100,000/ton today, I wonder if the mint even wants to make more. Certainly they will have to raise the price for the set.I can’t wait to see their pricing for the gold coins with gold at $2058/oz. I can’t believe I’m saying this, but I may have gotten a bargain when I bought the 4 coin Gold Proof Set last year for only $5050!
When the proof gold Buffalo coin came out, I bought one for $999. What a bargain by today’s prices.
That was 16 years ago by the way.
Antonio,
Are you referring to the 2006 Gold Proof Buffalo/? I ask because I bought 5 of them and only paid $800 per coin, from the mint. Did you buy one graded PR70? I wanted to buy a sheet of the uncirculated buffaloes (I think there was 15 or 20 coins to the sheet) but decided to wait and see if the price of gold would come down. It never did and the sheets sold out and I’ve been kicking myself ever since! Those Buffalo’s are still my favorite coins.
They did do a great job on those ones. I’m happy to see they’re still minted, although at a much lower mintage. I believe you paid this price because of the number of coins you bought, I only bought one. $4000 would have been too much for me. I still have my original receipt from the U.S. Mint. The following year the price went up accordingly. At today’s price of gold an ounce, I still think I got a good deal. Something to add to my retirement.
Colorized Purple Heart status went to “PROCESSING” this morning.
Rooster —
I got my entire set of Purple Heart coins today. The colorized one is not overdone so it is elegant. While it is the most eye-catching, all are stunning.
— Mike
Mike: Way to go. I think everyone will be pleased with these as you and I. I only got my first single coin colorized Purple Heart and without a doubt one of the finest coins ever.