Should I get Silver Maple Leaves

If it's not about silver investment but more about collecting world coins, I would go for the nicest designs, and the Rwanda cheetah and the Mexican Libertad are clearly on top of the list (at least in my list

 

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They get milk spots too. Gold bars get red spots/splotches. Things can be done like useing NC for conervation and NGC grading.

She picked a very nice class of numuimatics to be come involved in.

 

Somalian Elephants and the Australian Lunars seies. It helps so much when the coin changes each year.

 

I've bought 15 different 1oz world coins and the Libertad is my absolute favorite! It is such a beautiful coin.

If I could re-launch my collection, I would buy only Libertads and ASEs.

 

I have to agree with westcoaster and SCFY. The world mints offer a wide variety of fine collector coins and in the case above with PAMP numismatic silver bars. Buy a Panda. The 2013 has the nicest design of them all IMHO. Then try a Lunar Series II snake or dragon. These can be affordably bought in 1/2 and 2 oz's also. The 1/2s can be bought for $15-45 each. The 2 oz is a great deal right now because it'll cost less than two 1 oz coins and has a lower mintage. Not too long ago they were $52. Collecting the 1/2 Lunar Series II can be affordable and a challange. If you have the money to spend buy a Chinese Lunar Fan 1 oz coin. They are very cool IMHO.

 

You can easily and affordably get any grade of 2013 Panda you want.

Examples shown: OPM, NGC 69, NGC 70, and NGC 70 Early Releases.

 

A lot of people bring up really good options. I'll bring up one that hasn't been brought up yet (to my knowledge), the britannia. There are a lot of cool designs over the years and they have a relatively low mintage when compared to other world coins making them a little more collectable. I don't think you will be disappointed when you are looking at the reverse of the 2001, 2007 and 2009 coin.

I would like to reiterate a point made earlier, make a decision based on your own personal motivation for owning coins in the first place. I am OCD and so for me, owning a maple leaf with milk stains is intolerable to me. I prefer 69/70 graded bullion, but if you are the type that doesn't care, then buy a roll of maple leafs. To each his own. Enjoy, you picked an awesome hobby.

 

It's just a matter of personal preference, and if you buy what you like you are more likely to be happy with it. I love maple leaves, and should you buy them? I say yes, but there is plenty of other silver out there I would say yes to as well. Milk spots can be an issue but tend only to develop in humid areas. They get leftover from the dies not being cleaned enough which RCM is notorious for, but it takes humidity to bring the invisible spots to life. So if you buy tubes I would keep them sealed unless you plan on putting them in capsules. Otherwise you can just go for the individual thermtron sealed maples so you don't have to worry about it.

 

It's a very collectible series. There were 5,000 2012's made. For 2013, they uped it to 10,000.

I want a 2013 Cheetah for $45, and so far I've been unsuccessful. These guys really retain their value, regardless of silver spot.

 

I like the Rwanda series too. I really just started out with it a couple months ago. So far I have the cheetah, rhino, and zebra. Keep at it, you can snag a cheetah for under $40 sometimes.

The other one I recently got into is the Somalia Elephants. There's quite a variety of options with those, some with low mintages. I just ordered some of the 2013 high relief coins (mintage 1000).

The values of these held up well while the common bullion was crashing. It seems like a good way to diversify.

 

No offence to those, but ASE are fantastic, also, anything from Canada, Australia, Austria, Etc, Etc, milk spots can be removed, without hurting the coin, and as an after thought, unless it's proof, who cares? It's Bullion, it's still quad 9, and that's what it's worth, period.

 

Recently picked up a few CML for $22 and change. Wish I would've gotten more..
Maple leaf side very pretty.

 

That is a beautiful picture. Coin looks awesome. I'm sure there a ton of threads on how to take pics of coins (which I'm horrible at) but I just wanted to say that your pic is sweet!

 

Thank you. I realize the bullion Maple has little to zero numis value, but, it tends to be cheaper and there is real beauty in that Maple Leaf design. I tried to capture it with my new Canon SX50 HS (still learning how to use it). Also, the purity of the silver can't be denied and my Maples all tend to weigh in on the heavy side of 1 ozt. (bonus silver).

 

How can milkspots be removed without hurting the coin? Please tell me.

 

I'll take maples any time over pamp bars.

 

The PAMP bars, especially the Lunar series, are sexy and have cache. As an investment they just plain suck. There's no capped mintage and you pay a huge premium. It's nice to buy ONE of each design but that's it.

Granted the above picture of the Maple Leaf is fantastic, I recently received my first Maple Leaf and was very unimpressed and bored with the coin. From a purely bullion standpoint, other than buying a generic round, Maple Leafs and Austrian Philharmonics can't be beat. There's zero numismatic value.

 

I read somewhere in the last week that there is a huge glut of maple leaves on the market. I do not know if they meant the mint made too many, dealers ordered too many, or someone sold a ton. But, the article was saying premiums on these are way down on the wholesale market.

 

I've noticed the same thing. I've seen at least one online retailer selling them at $23.69 each no matter the quantity. That's the lowest I've ever seen.

 

they're a good looking coin and very pure. people are snobs about them because there are a lot of them out there.