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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;sio2ga, post: 2586992, member: 83570&quot;]I doubt that the South African mint is selling it any cheaper to MCM than what they do the public. I could go along with your theory very easily but this is not a bullion coin. This is a &quot;premium uncirculated&quot; which is on par with the burnished eagle that the US mint charges almost the exact same price for ($43/$45). I&#039;m betting MCM had to pay almost the full $43 per coin and may have gotten 10% off at most. The SAM website says that they come in tubes of 25 or &quot;in a blue pouch&quot;. That seems to mean they are treating it only just a little better than a cheap bullion coin, similar to how the US treats bullion coins (the US puts them in tubes and doesn&#039;t sell singles at all). SAM usually packages the proofs and even the lessor non-proof issues very well by putting them in both a capsule and a plastic box as well. Judging by the SAM&#039;s letter, they didn&#039;t have them individually capsuled/boxed when they shipped them to MCM. I searched around and saw pictures of the special pouch the coins come in and I just got the feeling that it wasn&#039;t going to be in a capsule because otherwise why bother with a pouch? Judging from SAM&#039;s letter and what the German dealer was quoted as saying on the link to the silver stacker&#039;s forum, it seems like they are going to restrike coins to go to the dealers that have made big orders and to me that&#039;s pretty surprising. I would like to have been a fly on the wall at MCM when they alerted SAM to the condition the coins were in on arrival. </p><p>The bright side is that if SAM restrikes these for MCM, we might be able to buy a graded 70 for a reasonable price of $70 or so, similar to what they sell the burnished eagle for in that grade.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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