Want to see a coin that sold out in 30 minutes? http://www.perthmint.com.au/catalog...el-web-spider-2012-1oz-silver-proof-coin.aspx Sold out prior to the release date and virtually impossible to find
I bought mine from the Perth and they were gone within a few hours. Limit was one per member. The distributors had all sold out within a day. A very cool series.
Try Apmex: http://www.apmex.com/Product/70339/2012_1_oz_Proof_Silver_Funnel_Web_Spider___Deadly_and_Dangerous_.aspx
http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=perth+mint+funnel+web+spider+&_trksid=p5197.c0.m627 Here are two from fee-bay.
PP, what are you doing? You know you are not supposed to be divulging that kind of information! You're supposed to let the U. S. Mint provincialists continue to live in their fantasy world. Now, get with the program! Perth Mint products are difficult enough to get already; we don't need more people competing with us for them.
By this reasoning the Perth Mint is no different than most world mint's anymore. Many many many of the world mints have begun successfully marketing manufactured collectibles and gifts items. The US Mint in some ways can be regarded as bearing restraint in not producing map shaped coins, colorized series coins, coins inset with jewels, et al. However, the mark up is the same on any modern manufactured NIFC collectible coin. No one is making you buy these products but other people may have their own desire for collecting them that we shouldn't put down because of it. And if you don't have the budget to afford something there's no reason to slam it either. Many of these products are minted in short supply when compared to the greater mintages of standard products these mint's produce and world mints differ greatly from the Franklin Mint in that they produce legal tender, denominated in a nations currency, supported by the authority of those nations as to purity and face value.
Personally I would not care whether it is the Franklin Mint that guarantees a certain purity or the government of, say, Palau, Liberia, Niue and the like. Sure, what the FM issues these days does not circulate in any country. But that also applies to pretty much every silver/gold collector coin that is issued in the name of those countries ... So if you like those novelty or souvenir pieces that the Perth Mint issues, go ahead and buy them. Some have beautiful and even stunning designs. Just don't think of them as means of payment. Christian
What do you mean? The US doesn't have a separate mint for non-circulating legal tender coins. The US mint does exactly what the Perth Mint does as well as what the RAM does. I buy US proof silver dollars because I like novelty items. But I don't think of them as means of payment.
I'm done with this thread. It is not what I intended to be involved with and is completely without context.
Happens with other topics too. It's called thread drift. See here http://www.cointalk.com/t209174-6/ for example. Christian
