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<p>[QUOTE="yakpoo, post: 903114, member: 18157"]That would be the Montreal Olympics. My Father collected that series and passed them to me. There were seven (7), four (4) silver coin sets (28 total) and a gold coin. The deal at the time was that you had to buy all seven of the silver sets to be eligible to purchase the gold coin. I have all seven silver sets and the gold coin.</p><p> </p><p>However, there were over 2 million of these complete sets sold (as I recall) and they're not worth much more than bullion att. It's been a few years since I looked into this so I would encourage you to independently verify what I just said...but that's my recollection.</p><p> </p><p>Personally, I'm keeping my coins "as is"...as a rememberance of my Father. I might consider having them slabbed if that was the only way I could protect them...but I would consider that "money spend" rather than an investment. I suspect that's why you haven't seen many of them slabbed.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="yakpoo, post: 903114, member: 18157"]That would be the Montreal Olympics. My Father collected that series and passed them to me. There were seven (7), four (4) silver coin sets (28 total) and a gold coin. The deal at the time was that you had to buy all seven of the silver sets to be eligible to purchase the gold coin. I have all seven silver sets and the gold coin. However, there were over 2 million of these complete sets sold (as I recall) and they're not worth much more than bullion att. It's been a few years since I looked into this so I would encourage you to independently verify what I just said...but that's my recollection. Personally, I'm keeping my coins "as is"...as a rememberance of my Father. I might consider having them slabbed if that was the only way I could protect them...but I would consider that "money spend" rather than an investment. I suspect that's why you haven't seen many of them slabbed.[/QUOTE]
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