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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;krispy, post: 774948, member: 19065&quot;]Richie, I feel like we just had this exact same discussion in another thread a few days back about the premiums over spot for Eagle products and what one pays for them above other similar bullion coins, the collector value of ASEs, the premiums involved, etc. And I think we understood each other then, that we both understand these factors. So I won&#039;t repeat it again. </p><p><br /></p><p>The OP hasn&#039;t stated if he&#039;s investing or collecting. Since this is a bullion version ASE, not a collectible version, there is NO &quot;W&quot; mint mark, I am left with the conclusion the OP is an investor rather than a collector and from the price I see, he has over paid. And as I stated, if he&#039;s a collector then he would be better off spending his money on the appropriate version of this coin if that&#039;s what he&#039;s after for his collection.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now a lot of people keep giving the OP &#039;moral support&#039; (as many are want to do in a general sense) and saying this is a good deal because it&#039;s &#039;slabbed&#039; and that it&#039;s good because it&#039;s a &#039;2006&#039;... but this is only a bullion coin and it wasn&#039;t bought at a great price for an investment. The slab is doing nothing for this coin but deflecting damages that might occur. You could but any bullion coin in your own encapsulation device and achieve the same thing. There is no grade given by NGC and any such grade is yet debatable, because you cannot even SEE the coin in the auctioned&nbsp; because they are so blurry. This implies the OP bought it for the slab, trusting NGCs non-graded, slab protected and First Strike<i> marketed</i> sales device. A collector wouldn&#039;t/shouldn&#039;t buy sight unseen, esp, off eBay in an auction with terrible photos. An investor does buy sight unseen because grades and slabs don&#039;t matter to them. The investor in <i>this</i> auction over paid and shouldn&#039;t continue to hunt for such &#039;deals&#039; as an investor, because over time you are significantly continuing to over pay.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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