Ok, so it has been awhile

I apologize for the tardiness of talking about anything coin related over the last four or so months. But let's not dilly dally on that and focus on all the numismatic issues that have sprung up since the last post.

Back in January I wrote about the possibility of a JPL commemorative coin that would celebrate the 50th anniversary of NASA and JPL. I thought that the whole issue was dead. But then this morning on my daily perusal of coinnews.net I saw that the bill for the issue has unanimously passed the Senate and once a few technical details are resolved between the House and Senate versions of the bill, it'll be off to the president to sign. I guess Congress had been too busy grilling Roger Clemens to pass this bill in a timely manner.

Though I am intrigued by the concept and the potential designs, this program will probably be out of financial reach for collectors of average means. In the end, its a shame that such a coin program will cost so much (I'm guessing that aquiring just the silver dollars will amount to close to $400) and be rather inaccesible to the general public.