CoinWeek Giveaway # 658 Sponsored by…The Coin That Bent U.S. Mint History: Win a 2014-P Baseball Hall of Fame Silver Dollar

Some commemorative coins mark anniversaries. Others change what the United States Mint can do.

The 2014-P National Baseball Hall of Fame Silver Dollar, in This Weeks Giveaway, belongs firmly in the second group. Its curved surfaces transformed a familiar baseball glove and ball into something collectors could almost feel in three dimensions. More importantly, the coin forced the U.S. Mint to solve manufacturing problems it had never faced on a circulating-size commemorative coin.

This week’s CoinWeek Giveaway offers collectors a chance to own one of the landmark modern commemoratives of the 21st century.

Baseball Meets a Minting Experiment

Congress authorized the National Baseball Hall of Fame Commemorative Coin Program to celebrate the Hall’s 75th anniversary in 2014. The program included a $5 gold coin, a silver dollar, and a clad half dollar. Congress capped silver-dollar production at 400,000 coins across all product options.

However, Congress also gave the Mint an unusual assignment.

The coins needed curves.

The obverse curves inward, creating a concave surface that resembles the pocket of a baseball glove. Meanwhile, the reverse rises outward into a convex dome that echoes the shape of a baseball. The Mint identifies the program as the first time it minted and issued curved U.S. coins, although it had previously produced a curved Roberto Clemente Congressional Gold Medal in 1973.

That shape created serious technical challenges. Mint engineers studied relief height, tooling, metal flow, polishing, laser frosting, striking pressure, and overall coinability. Congress pointed to the Monnaie de Paris’ 2009 International Year of Astronomy coin as a model. In addition, the Royal Australian Mint and Perth Mint shared technical insight with their American counterparts.

A Baseball Glove Wins the Competition

The Mint did not simply assign the obverse to one of its artists. Instead, it held a nationwide competition in 2013 and received 178 submissions.

Artist Cassie McFarland won with a wonderfully simple idea: an open baseball glove. McFarland drew inspiration from a well-used glove that remained close at hand during her childhood. The concave surface then turned the glove’s pocket into a remarkably natural three-dimensional design.

Mint Sculptor-Engraver Don Everhart created the reverse. His baseball fills the convex surface, while the stitching follows the dome and enhances the illusion of an actual ball.

Together, the two sides create one of the cleverest marriages of coin shape and subject matter in modern American numismatics.

Collectors Call for a Home Run

Collectors responded immediately when sales opened on March 27, 2014.

The Mint sold all 50,000 authorized gold coins within 24 hours. Even more remarkably, collectors bought the entire 400,000-coin silver-dollar authorization in only 13 days. Later Mint sales figures recorded 399,942 silver dollars, effectively the full authorized mintage after final accounting.

The entire program eventually generated about $7.9 million in surcharges for the National Baseball Hall of Fame, making baseball history and numismatic history intersect in a very real way.

2014-P Baseball Hall of Fame Silver Dollar Specifications

• Denomination: $1
• Mint: Philadelphia
• Mintmark: P
• Composition: 90% silver, 10% copper
• Weight: 26.73 grams
• Diameter: 38.10 mm
• Overall Height: 0.243 inch
• Authorized Mintage: 400,000 across Proof and Uncirculated silver-dollar options
• Obverse Designer: Cassie McFarland
• Reverse Designer/Sculptor: Don Everhart

For baseball fans, it celebrates America’s pastime. For modern-coin collectors, however, the 2014-P Baseball Hall of Fame Silver Dollar represents something more. It captures the moment when the U.S. Mint stopped thinking of a coin as simply a flat disc—and knocked one completely out of the park.

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