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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;krispy, post: 698904, member: 19065&quot;]If you currently have, ever do buy or send out for grading any bullion ASEs, you will be waiting a <u>very long time </u>or until the ASE program is&nbsp; canceled or something about the program radically changed in order to ever see slabbed bullion ASEs resell for anything significantly more than raw bullion ASEs. If you buy them slabbed do not pay inflated costs for them. There&#039;s no point. If you can get them for the same price as raw or less than a graded fee would cost, then maybe the purchase is worth the extra money spent since silver will likely continue to rise enough to recoup a little higher premium spent. However, in most of our life times having bullion ASEs graded will likely never be profitable nor worth our time and money to do. A 100+ years may need to pass before slabbed bullion ASEs could sell for anything more than bullion value. Consider low MS grade Morgans in slabs, how old they are and current value over melt, not much return over time. I do think that the bullion ASE coins will eventually enter the numismatic realm after the program ends, and eventually, the program <u>will</u> end. Likewise peoples strong opinions now about not grading bullion ASEs are only good for saving you money <u>now</u> but are short sighted to consider the years of abuse that raw bullion coins will have to avoid being un-protected by encapsulation, especially slabs with grading guarantees, raw coins facing melt or if ever recalled by an executive order (I doubt that though) how the mintage figures will be less to go by for value with a lower census. There may be a higher survival rate of those bullion graded should they have perceived numismatic value/treatment and may manage to escape melt, recall, counterfeit, and other imaginable factors over a very long time in existence. Only at that much later date could they potentially yield value above where only bullion value is seen, realised and admonished today. I just posting to say, consider the ASE program <u>will </u>end someday, enjoy what you have now and don&#039;t forget future potential in such items long after you are gone even though it&#039;s not you who will benefit from that potential. Buy them raw and if you want them protected get AirTites or some such encapsulation device to admire them in. Don&#039;t over pay, but if you find graded bullion ASEs for a little over spot / less than what grading fees would cost, then that&#039;s cheap enough to buy as a graded coin.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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