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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Juan Blanco, post: 1647419, member: 41665&quot;]<b>Gimmicky.</b> With book or without. Special packaging or&nbsp; not. Vapor-blown, or not.&nbsp; Slabbed First Strike, Early Release, Signed by the&nbsp; stand-in Mint Director&#039;s mom, yada-yada or not.&nbsp; </p><p>Pucks are basically overpriced bullion at &gt;$200., current POS.</p><p>&nbsp;<i></i></p><p><i>Of course</i>&nbsp; super-recent product from the US Mint - accompanied by hysterical&nbsp; promotion verbiage - will always impress CTers.&nbsp;&nbsp; That&#039;s no surprise.&nbsp; But check out current feeBay prices for crap that&nbsp; was just as exciting to Middle American coin collector rubes ~5-10 years&nbsp; ago. </p><p><br /></p><p>The silliness of this discussion should be apparent: numismatic&nbsp; value for most moderns is on the wane.&nbsp; Seriously.&nbsp; Don&#039;t take my word for it. March yourself down to the LCS and see if&nbsp; THEY will give you $600.&nbsp; for that 2012 double-plus precious P-puck. They&#039;ll politely decline...&nbsp; then laugh, after you walk out of the store (red-faced,&nbsp; none-the-wiser?)&nbsp; I&#039;m not saying you cannot refuse to sell for&nbsp; what-it&#039;s-really-worth, but will you feel cheated/abused on <i>finally learning the truth </i>from dealers?&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m not so sure some people here &quot;get it.&quot; I personally like the Hawaii design best of all - but that&#039;s&nbsp; TOTALLY irrelevant anyway.&nbsp; We&nbsp; are are talking VALUE here. Modern US numismatic Silver value is dodgy, dubious, highly speculative now.&nbsp; otoh,&nbsp; shop around for rock-bottom low prices and discounts after POS declines&nbsp; another -20% or so, and you shouldn&#039;t do too badly (I suppose.) </p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;&quot;$1,000+&quot; ???! ..... lol <b>TOO FUNNY, MAN!</b></p><p><br /></p><p>If &quot;rarity&quot; should determine numismatic premium, then consider this: </p><p>1) ACTUAL mintage of the SpongeBob Squarepants 4 ozt Set was &lt;2,000 (<u>not</u> 100,000.) Reportedly, only ~1,528 were made, ergo at least ~10x rarer than Hawaii-P pucks.&nbsp; </p><p>2) What&#039;s more, the remaining FBI-seized sets might get melted.&nbsp; Then this world-famous, super-popular brand item would become even rarer. Could numismatic value possibly decline?!!</p><p>3) On feeBay, the SpongeBob numismatic premium is currently (2-14-2013: $316.) .... <b>~150%.</b>&nbsp; That&#039;s CHEAP!!!&nbsp;&nbsp; Or &quot;expensive&quot; as Detecto noted. Ahem! So which is it?</p><p><a href="http://www.cointalk.com/t221823/#post1628241" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.cointalk.com/t221823/#post1628241">http://www.cointalk.com/t221823/#post1628241</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Shouldn&#039;t <i>ultra-rarity</i> make that SpongeBob Ag product 10x (or &gt;20x?!) more valuable than a 15,000 mintage Ag coin (representing a place few <i>Americans </i>could even find on a map)?&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Think globally, here... 30+ million viewers?&nbsp; Annual $9 bln franchise? </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH]238720.vB[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH]238712.vB[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH]238718.vB[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH]238721.vB[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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