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Message:: [QUOTE="krispy, post: 698089, member: 19065"]Apples and oranges elaine... especially for a collector who may already have the 8-8-8 set and needs/wants a UHR for their collection, who may or may not even have a budget to consider. A physical bullion investor (non collector) would see little difference in these other than price for metal content, such as the mintage numbers and the "W" on the 8-8-8 that you monitor/determine values from. The investor wouldn't pay numismatic values for the 8-8-8 "W" coins based on their actual weight to that of the UHR: 2 half ounce coins in the 8-8-8 set (the Buffalo is 24k and the AGE is 22k) to a single full 1 ounce coin (UHR is 24k), which includes investor reasoning in difference of metal content. I don't think you could convince an investor to buy these collector 8-8-8 sets. Some investors may pay the Mint premium on the UHR but even at that may not wish to pay the Mint premium when looking to acquire physical bullion. You're message just sounds unclear suggesting to a bullion investing thread to pay nearly twice as much for a numismatic item (the 8-8-8 set) when they could buy two one ounce 24k bullion coins for a touch more. Given the pull back this past week in gold, should that continue and hold, the Mint may even lower prices on their products. In the future the bullion UHRs on the secondary market may retreat to bullion prices with lower premiums where an investor might pick them up, while the 8-8-8 perhaps could continue to rise or maintain its numismatic value. I think you are crossing up your audience of collectors and investors for whom you are dispensing this advice. As well your established biases for certain products, decisions when and when not to buy Mint products, desire to see PMs rise to recoup your much older Mint product 'investment' losses in collector PM coins from the Mint all this despite only being a buyer and not a seller.[/QUOTE]

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