Who will be buying this?

Is that a fingerprint on the bottom of coin?!?!?!

 

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I like it, will buy it, but hope the mint lays off these sets for a few years. Keep them special and in demand. Get back to just a proof each year!

 

I noticed the same thing, Joe. Maybe it's a 'watermark' to protect the rights of the image.

 

Nah, gotta be on the lens. Mint employees never transfer finger prints on the coin itself.........:devil:

Heck, good seein' Joe and Chris posting.

 

I guess if I can keep all of my limbs in tact, I may purchase one. If it costs an arm and a leg, I will stay away.

 

Depends on the price.

 

Never been an ASE guy, so I won't be in the buying group. I think the mint is shooting themselves in the foot by making a new "special" issue ASE every year now. But then, I guess there will always be those who buy even if they commemorate every year.
Guy

 

People complain that the ASE looks the same every year. Then others complain if the mint starts making a different one each year. Clearly they can't please everyone but they do need to make a profit.

 

I'm waiting for the U.S. Mint version of this.

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I don't think you're gonna have to wait long Chief........

 

do not like it!

 

Its not a defect, it's dust.

 

I love it and I'm buy'n!
It's a pretty big change for the series and if the mint has a production limit on these under 200k...yee-haw!
Just hope they don't have any household limits

 

The collector marketed "numismatic" ASEs never lacked a profit for the Mint. They've always sold them for far more than intrinsic value of the metal.

This series has steadily declined from a solid annual Proof coin collected by many to a series of coins now dependent on annual marketing gimmicks.

Ever since they could start exploiting anniversaries, starting with the 20th in 2006, when they introduced a Reverse Proof, then adding "W" mintmarks to otherwise uncirculated versions, expanding the product line and began this trend of inserting the coin in various presentation packaging and grouped with other coins, like the recent boxed sets or combined with paper money in still other sets, has this series become problematic and questionable between collectors.

Clearly the Mint has always made a profit on ASEs and fully intends to double, triple, quadrule the profitability every year now that they can exploit the brand loyalty of this product and ride on the accepted market factors of rising PM costs. The Mints dependency on these sales tactics are the root of what causes division among collectors deciding whether they buy into this or not, and why some feel the Mint are shooting themselves in the foot. For the first 20 years of the series, everyone who collected ASE, did so and were vastly satisfied with the silver eagle offerings. That sort of 'equality' amongst collectors doesn't currently exist, and can't what with the expansive number of products across all product lines that simply overwhelm individual collectors. Now that there are so many variations to "collect" it's ever more impossible to "satisfy everyone".

 

Wow, that would look great in a slab.

A slab like this would be perfect for it.

 

This I will not be buying!

 

I will never purchase anything from the mint again if they start colorizing coins. Most of their current coin designs are already garbage in my opinion. Color would just make them look even worse.

 

+1

 

Love the design People. Love the design. The passionate pleas abound in this thread. The design never gets old with me and the mint making new variances only increases my ardor for the series. Chris howls and battles against what the mint mint produces but new phases of the product is what the public (collector?) demands.

Love ya like a brother Chris. Now slice and dice me........

 

I think it ugly as sin!!