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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;yakpoo, post: 1066029, member: 18157&quot;]<b>Normal Sized Coins:</b></p><p><br /></p><p>I like the 50 States series and have the entire silver collection PF70 except for Delaware and New Jersey. As an investment they probably won&#039;t be worth much during my lifetime, but that&#039;s not why I collect coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m particularly interested in the 2010 ATB quarters. There&#039;s a &quot;chance&quot; they could have a low mintage like the 1999 50 States quarters. The Mint has told Coin World that their intention is to continue selling the 2010 annual sets through 2011, but I haven&#039;t seen where they&#039;ve actually posted that as a &quot;done-deal&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p>Silver has gone up 40% since August (when they began selling the 2010 Silver Proof set, but the price of the set has remained the same. It&#039;s only natural to assume that the Mint will raise prices for their 2011 products...but the Mint wouldn&#039;t sell the 2010 sets at a lower price than the 2011 sets, would they? ...of course not.</p><p><br /></p><p>The Mint could do as they say...keep selling the 2010 sets through 2011 at the higher price, but the &quot;hard-core&quot; silver proof quarter collectors already have their 2010 sets and may not want to pay the higher price for more. It would be easier if the Mint just sells them out and focuses on the 2011 sets.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Five Oz Coins:</b></p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve seen a lot of discussion on the potential future value of these coins/rounds. A coin&#039;s perceived value is a function of &quot;Availability&quot; to the &quot;Collector Base&quot;. The lower mintage of these initial coins, combined with the &quot;one per household&quot; distribution&quot; should make this first set the KEY of the series.</p><p><br /></p><p>The question is...&quot;How many people will want to collect a complete set?&quot;. Well, back in the 1970&#039;s, I thought it would be impossible for anyone wanting to waste time collecting Eisenhower dollars...yet, today some folks pay some rather hefty sums for the more obscure varieties. I would think the ATB Bullion coins would be at least as collectible as Ike dollars...(and about the same size).</p><p><br /></p><p>I just don&#039;t see how you can go wrong buying a set of these coins/rounds at 10% over spot. If you want to continue the collection, you already own the Key to the series. If not, you should be able to turn a tidy profit.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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