The cancellation and the discount had some critics of the president issuing gleeful zingers. 
 
 David Axelrod, chief campaign strategist for President Barack Obama, said on Twitter, "Coming soon to eBay: Historic summit coins!!" 
 
 Journalist and author Thomas E. Ricks noted that some of the president's supporters have been lobbying for a Nobel Peace Prize to recognize Trump's diplomacy with the North Korean regime. "Does he have to return his Premature Nobel Peace Prize?" Ricks said on Twitter. "Time to issue a 'no summit' coin?" 
 
 The cancellation of the summit, which appears to have put potential talks over North Korean denuclearization on hold, is also a collector-worthy twist, Harrison said. 
 
 "It probably makes it worth a little more," he said. "Half the value of these things is the story behind them — and the better the story, the more it’s worth." 
 
 While reluctant to predict the Trump-Kim medallion's desirability, American Numismatic Association education director Rod Gillis agrees that Trump's withdrawal from the summit could make the item more collectible. 
 
 "Something with a great deal of interest might see value rise," he says. 
 
 Its value could be contingent on how many of the medallions are made, both men said, with higher production numbers usually correlating to less value. The White House Communications Agency did not respond immediately to a request for comment from NBC News. 
 
 Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer wasn't joking Tuesday when he said, via Twitter, that he doesn't believe that the profile of Kim, whom he described as "a brutal dictator," should share space on a government-issued medallion with the president. 
 
 "I urge the White House to take Kim off the coin," he said. 
 
 The White House said the issuance of the medallion was both routine and outside its purview. "In terms of the coins, this is not something that the White House has anything to do with," White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders said Tuesday. 
 
 "We don't have any input on the design, the manufacturer, the process, in any capacity," she said. "This is a standard procedure by the White House Communications Agency, which is made up exclusively of career military officials. And these coins are designed and done by that organization." 
 
 The White House Gift Shop page for the medallion states that it comes with a black velvet coin case. "If summit does not occur," it states, "you can request a refund. Virtually all customers have asked us to fulfill this unique heirloom of political history regardless of outcome." 
 
 Short of nuclear annihilation, it did not appear that the item would be recalled or curtailed. ||||| Image copyright AFP/Getty 
 
 The Trump-Kim summit isn't happening - but has that only added to the allure of special coins made to commemorate the event? 
 
 Confusingly, there are in fact two commemorative coins doing the rounds. 
 
 The focus of most of the attention is the coin created by the White House Communications Agency (WHCA) - it hails the talks between Mr Trump and "Supreme Leader" Kim Jong-un. 
 
 Such coins are often presented to foreign guests and diplomats. 
 
 The other features silhouettes of Mr Trump, Mr Kim and South Korean President Moon Jae-in and is available from the White House Gift Shop website. Its popularity appears to be soaring, with demand crashing the site. 
 
 The coin had been offered at a discount price of $19.95 (£14.90), down from $24.95, earlier on Thursday, with the gift shop also offering refunds if the summit did not take place. 
 
 But it said "most supporters have said they want this heirloom of political history regardless of outcome". 
 
 That does seem to be the case. 
 
 BBC North America Correspondent Anthony Zurcher says the WHCA coin could be the "1804 Dollar" of numismatics - referring to a series of coins created for diplomatic gifts in the 1800s that now command ultra-high prices. 
 
 The WHCA coin was not requested by Mr Trump or his team - but it has nevertheless provided an opportunity for people to lampoon him online. 
 
 Could Mr Trump have sent half of the coin to Mr Kim as a declaration of love, as former Pentagon spokesman Adam Blickstein suggests? 
 
 Did the coin in fact help make Mr Kim the winner in the situation? 
 
 The snark factor went up further when writer Brian Krassenstein said Mr Trump could hang the coin "next to his fake Time magazine cover" - referring to a Washington Post report revealing that several of Mr Trump's golf clubs prominently display a framed copy of a fake Time cover featuring several positive headlines and Trump as its cover. 
 
 One social media user said the coins could just have been another way for Mr Trump to boost his business empire. 
 
 Would the president be using them to pay people, wondered Paul Ryckert who posted a photo of the president looking at young lawnmower entrepreneur Frank Giaccio. The 11-year-old had written to the president asking to mow the White House lawn. 
 
 Or would they simply find their way on to eBay, as President Obama's former chief strategist David Axelrod said. 
 
 However, not everybody thinks the coin is funny. 
 
 North Korea analyst Robert Kelly had earlier said it legitimised Mr Kim's "personality cult" and was "un-American". 
 
 Following this and other criticisms, the White House put out a statement saying it "did not have any input into the design" of the coin. ||||| 
 
 
 
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 While summit talks seem stalled [Peace Talks will occur as announced on May 31, 2018 - we had faith having seen, firsthand, servers crash as the world expressed its support of Peace in Korea and between the Koreas and America] as are you, perhaps, I am hopefully optimistic, especially given positive signs, recently, signs indicating the Korea Peace Talks will occur. We will continue to celebrate through objects of design and art the spirit of peace and harmony confluent with the innate dignity of all humankind. 
 
 
 
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– The Trump-Kim summit has been called off—but it's still a historic event for coin collectors. A commemorative coin produced by the White House Communications Agency to mark the summit between Trump and "Supreme Leader" Kim Jong Un is now in high demand and is expected to became a valuable collector's item. BBC correspondent Anthony Zurcher says it could become the "1804 dollar" of commemorative coins, referring to extremely rare and valuable coins that were used as American diplomatic gifts in the 19th century. The White House says the issuing of the coin by the WHCA, a military detachment tasked with securing presidential communications, was a routine event and it was not involved. Another coin, with silhouettes of Trump, Kim, and South Korea's President Moon Jae-in, was still available from the White House Gift Shop on Thursday, discounted from $24.95 to $19.95, but high demand apparently crashed the website. After the summit was called off, Trump's critics were quick to poke fun at the WHCA coin, with former Obama campaign strategist David Axelrod quipping that they would be on eBay soon, NBC reports. Some critics said they had been in dubious taste to begin with. "This is just gross. Whose personality cult exactly is this summit legitimizing?" asked North Korea analyst Robert Kelly. "This is un-American." (North Korea says it is still willing to proceed with the summit.)