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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;sio2ga, post: 2685172, member: 83570&quot;]As ddddd mentioned, there are other dealers in other countries that will be selling them.&nbsp; But, international shipping is expensive and usually adds $20 to their asking price just from shipping.&nbsp;&nbsp; I would think there are plenty of coin collectors that go to Africa that might would bring some back to sell.&nbsp; I go to Africa (South Africa and Namibia specifically) pretty regularly and I&#039;m thinking about getting some to resell. Of course, the people that live in this country will aim to make some money if they go to this trouble so that is not going to make them much cheaper than MCM but the quality might be much better. </p><p>ddddd also mentioned that flippers might buy from MCM to resell, but I&#039;m doubting that because the raw ones that MCM sells are rejects from grading so I wouldn&#039;t think too many people would buy from them with the aim of reselling.&nbsp;&nbsp; But, who&#039;s to say how many coins MCM actually bought?&nbsp;&nbsp; Rumor has it that they were allocated 25,000 coins but that doesn&#039;t necessarily mean they actually have bought that many.&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; The line of&nbsp; thinking being with that is if they didn&#039;t buy a lot initially then they won&#039;t be dumping any later.&nbsp;&nbsp; I just don&#039;t know if the public would be able to know for sure how many they bought and received and out of that number how many they will be keeping (it appears they sent some back from the first batch and they may do that again).</p><p>It&#039;s really hard to say if they will be cheaper next year or in later years.&nbsp; They are cheap enough that it won&#039;t hurt to buy one or two now.&nbsp;&nbsp; I&#039;ve been really excited about getting this coin, mainly because I really like silver coins but grew up reading about &quot;Gold Krugerrands&quot; in all sorts of novels and seeing them in movies in my youth, so the idea of a silver Krugerrand is really appealing to me because they are affordable and I collect silver coins mainly to begin with.&nbsp;&nbsp; Despite being enthusiastic I am well grounded in reality and know that it&#039;s a possibility that they may be cheaper because that&#039;s how it goes with coins quite often. A million coins is a very high mintage but I&#039;ve read how millions and millions of coins were hoarded and disappeared in the past.&nbsp; It&#039;s a huge planet with a good many collectors so when you think about it on a global basis a million is not so much if the coin is popular.</p><p>I do think that with all things considered, such as it being the first silver Krugerrand and having the 50 year privy and being the first legal tender Krugerrand, they they will hold their value more than a lot of people think. I&#039;d recommend buying one now because the most you can do is lose $20 but it&#039;s also a possibility that you may have to pay a lot more than they are asking now. Edited to add after giving it more thought: I&#039;m betting that MCM will drop these to $40 a year from now.&nbsp;&nbsp; They had originally planned and budgeted to sell these at $40 to start with and I think that with all the hype and anticipation that built up with the delay caused them to decide to get as much as they can on the first release and knowing that they can always go down in price after a period of time has passed.&nbsp; But that&#039;s just a hunch and $20 isn&#039;t enough to cause me to wait on a &quot;maybe&quot;.&nbsp; I&#039;ll probably get twenty bucks worth of satisfaction looking at it the first year.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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