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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;SilverWilliesCoinsdotcom, post: 2883994, member: 86795&quot;]How then about USMINT.GOV offerings in the fuzzy blue boxes? These seem to add cost just for the sake of adding profit for the mint. Admittedly, they are pretty and desirable for the casual collector or the collector of fuzzy blue boxed coins, but one of the first things serious collectors do when they have a good looking one is put aside the mint box, display case and COA and submit it to the TPG in hopes of getting the blessing of a 70 back. The COAs sort of amaze me in their worthlessness to begin with, you could just as well glue them to a cat, &quot;It says it&#039;s authentic, Ralph, but it sure doesn&#039;t look like Mark Twain to me...&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>Meanwhile, the boxes, cases, capsules and COAs enjoy a healthy used aftermarket on eBay for people to take other things unrelated to the COA and increase THEIR value, not coins that misrepresent their origin&#039;s certificate, but maybe a picture of their cat?</p><p><br /></p><p>Also funny, the TPGs will take care of the unpackaging from original USMINT box, fuzzy case and capsule, and at least one, I forget which, charges you to return them, along with the potential cat pedigree, otherwise I assume they sell them in bulk to POWER eBay sellers. Waste not want not.</p><p><br /></p><p>Which leaves us with the COIN! Remember the coin? It&#039;s what we supposedly bought in the first place. And if it comes back as a 69 or shudder, worse, its value might start to fall a bit. TPGs are nice to warn us though that this might be our own fault as we uneducated non-professionals might damage the coin while popping it out of the original mint capsule, but fear not, they have a fee to doing that for you as well, also to send it back to you, otherwise I imagine it stays with the original cardboard and fuzzy boxes and the COA, to retain the integrity of the original product, whatever the future owner of that might stick in it.</p><p><br /></p><p>Sadly, some folks get discouraged by this and just sell it on eBay, RAW, described as a &quot;NICE COIN...&quot; which someone will buy eventually we hope. Or on the high mintage issues, in other words the popular ones that everyone bought like crazy the year they were issued, your local coin shop will give you melt for them, so my rule is on the modern commemoratives is to just buy the obscurely themed ones, as the fewer there are down the road the more they&#039;ll be worth of course.</p><p><br /></p><p>The hobby has changed since I started, finding silver coins in circulation, digging through bank rolls, and examining every coin that I got paid with when I had a paper route. You know, I was a newspaper delivery boy, an after school job when I was a kid. A newspaper, oh... that&#039;s something people would read everyday, oh, never mind...</p><p><br /></p><p>Of course, some people just hang on to it as received from Uncle Sam and look at them now and then and admire the nice shiny thing. I Still do that sometimes. It&#039;s fun.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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