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<p>[QUOTE="Conder101, post: 3495104, member: 66"]You think the BU 1992 Bill of Rights half is crazy, look at the BU commemorative silver dollars. </p><p><br /></p><p>There are only 8 issues with mintage higher than that 1992 half dollar. Of the roughly 80 issues, 20 of them have mintages below 30,000. Almost half of those are below 20,000. The 2017 Boys Town and 2018 Breast Cancer are just over 12,000 and I purchased both of those last two for less than mint issue price. There are only 23 with mintages over 100,000. I have half the set now and my average price per coin is probably less than $30. (Yes I have paid a good price for several but a lot of them I purchased for just a little over melt. There are really only 5 "expensive" coins in the set, the 4 1996 olympic dollars (mintages of 14 to 16 thousand each) and the 2001 Buffalo (which makes no sense, mintage of 227,000 sixth highest in the set) And these "expensive coins" run around $150 to $175.</p><p><br /></p><p>This years American Legion dollar has been out for a month. It sold 6,000 the first week, and in the next tree week 3,000 more. Sales right now are at 9,500. I think it will probably end up beating the 2017 and 2018 dollars, but I wouldn't be surprised if it comes in below 20K.</p><p><br /></p><p>I don't really expect to make money on these, but I do like low mintage issues.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Conder101, post: 3495104, member: 66"]You think the BU 1992 Bill of Rights half is crazy, look at the BU commemorative silver dollars. There are only 8 issues with mintage higher than that 1992 half dollar. Of the roughly 80 issues, 20 of them have mintages below 30,000. Almost half of those are below 20,000. The 2017 Boys Town and 2018 Breast Cancer are just over 12,000 and I purchased both of those last two for less than mint issue price. There are only 23 with mintages over 100,000. I have half the set now and my average price per coin is probably less than $30. (Yes I have paid a good price for several but a lot of them I purchased for just a little over melt. There are really only 5 "expensive" coins in the set, the 4 1996 olympic dollars (mintages of 14 to 16 thousand each) and the 2001 Buffalo (which makes no sense, mintage of 227,000 sixth highest in the set) And these "expensive coins" run around $150 to $175. This years American Legion dollar has been out for a month. It sold 6,000 the first week, and in the next tree week 3,000 more. Sales right now are at 9,500. I think it will probably end up beating the 2017 and 2018 dollars, but I wouldn't be surprised if it comes in below 20K. I don't really expect to make money on these, but I do like low mintage issues.[/QUOTE]
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