I'm trying to find (in the Red Book, 2005, 58th edition) a 1998 2 coin set of American Eagles. One coin is the $10.00 Gold Eagle and the other is the $1.00 Silver Eagle, both uncirculated. There is one for sale with original box and COA so I figured if the mint sold it it should be in the book. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks for all your help in the past, folks!! Going to try to post a photo of it... hope it comes out OK.
Imagine it would be worth the sum total of the values of each of the coins, plus a bit of a premium for being in the set with original packaging.
That isn't Mint Issued....I would suggest that a bank sold that...many times they do something like that and sell it for a little more than a dealer would. The mint issued the coins but not the set. Speedy
Not a US Mint issue... the $10.00 AGE is the Uncirculated version with a mintage of 309,829 coins (3rd largest in the series) and the Silver Eagle is Uncirculated as well with a mintage of 4,847,549 coins. I would say they are worth bullion plus a small premium..a dealer would deduct the premium usually 10-15% so he could recover some profit from the resale. Keep em and one day they will be worth more as bullion continues to go up...over the next 3-5 years! RickieB :thumb:
Another thought of mine about this 2 coin Platinum Eagle set. The fact they making 30,000 sets, and the mint for the most part already limited the 1/2 oz Proof coin to 15,000. 5000 single and 10,000 in sets. They haven't specified that the design will be any different for the regular proof coin in the set. So how can the mint sell someone a product they stated was limited to 5000 and 10000: Then make 30,000 more. That would be like minting another 50,000 of each gold spouse coin at the end of the year and selling them in a set. While people purchased these coins on the premise that the mintage would be limited to a much lower number.
That is a good point. I have questioned this too and would like to hear a legitimate answer if anyone know how the mint can pull this off....legitimate as in an answer other than the mint is out to deceive and rip people off.
Decieve and rip off people????? How about if they used the same method they used on the Presidential Coins to make the Gold Proofs they sell...........If you buy one are you going to bite it or have it analysed to see if it really Gold? Just a thought.
Actually I was looking for an answer with more material facts regarding the mints stated product limits. But hey, thanks anyways.
The problem is a common one - people mistake product limits for mintage numbers. They are not the same - not even close. So the mint is not doing anything wrong or even misleading. The only thing wrong is that people choose to believe what they want to believe instead of the facts.
