If you can afford the high price of collecting real coins, maybe you’ll be able to afford the high price of collecting Upper Deck’s rare coin trading cards. It’s a great idea to make trading cards featuring high-priced coins that normal people wouldn’t be able to obtain. Before the official release of this new card set called Eagles of America, Upper Deck is pre-selling the packs to dealers for $3.50 each–if you buy 500 packs! So what will the price be for one pack? Five bucks? For a pack of cards featuring coins that aren’t the real coins. Sorry Upper Deck, but this has no bang for my buck.
At least they should have designed the cards to look better. The design totally overpowers the coin. It would have been cool if Upper Deck just made the cards look very simple by using a design like the actual coin case holders:
Then it would look like I own the actual coin! And isn’t that what people really want?
I don’t get it. Those aren’t actual coins on the card? It’s just a reproduction of the coin? If it’s just a reproduction, then they did a lousy job of imaging that coin. It looks like they just threw it on the scanner. If you’re going to scan a coin, then make sure that the highight of the embossing is at the top and the shadow is at the bottom. That eagle coin has the highlight at the lower left and the shadow at the upper right. It looks completely unnatural.
In my short time of collecting it has been apparent that someone always comes up with a scam to make money off of the fact that perception of rarity propels one to engage in the hunt for riches. I think that our chances of hitting a lottery would be equal to or in some cases better than procuring a rare coin in ones change at the end of the day!
Wow. That’s crazy it would cost two million dollars to create a set of cards. Is this part of a fee from Upper Deck to use their name, distribution, and printing? It would be nice to see this set independently produced in a smaller run. Although as I wrote back in 2008, the price point of $5 per pack is still hard to digest.
If the cards were produced by Upper Deck (just speculating, I know it’s not a reality anymore), would the actual original coin featured on each card become more valuable? I would imagine so, because that is THE coin featured in the card set. That concept in of itself is a rather interesting phenomenon.
Hi. I designed these rare coin trading cards in 2007. Unfortunately, the series was never published. $2,000,000 start-up cost to do it right. I found your comments interesting, however, and would like to respond briefly. The cards were designed to enhance the beauty of the coins. Everyone has their personal opinion, but I still like the elaborate and patriotic design which showcases the coins nicely. Most of the images came from Heritage, and you can’t just take another photo of a Brasher Dubloon unless you own one. That said, the coin packs would have contained actual rare coins as well as Prize Cards and interesting stories about America’s rare coins. Had people seen the cards in person, I think they would have loved them as these are only rough samples. In any case, I recently published a new book called The Art Hunters Handbook. Check it out on Amazon or my website atAmericanArtAdvisor.com.