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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;krispy, post: 2025226, member: 19065&quot;]I don&#039;t think APMEX have customer service support over weekends, they&#039;re more a M-F business. I&#039;m pretty sure APMEX will work with you to exchange the item and understand what you want, collecting a bullion item, not just accepting bullion for investment. These are their special exclusive coins as well that you spoke of in another thread and you are new(?) as a customer to them, so they should be able to help you make the exchange, though know that this is costing. To return the piece is a loss of your return shipping and money meant to be stored in precious metals to &#039;protect (your) wealth&#039;. </p><p><br /></p><p>Typically, bullion coins are going to come from various Mints and handlers with any number of issues. Even if you paid extra for a certified piece of bullion you can get those which have the milk-spots or other questionable marks that fall within TPG grade tolerances. </p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s pretty common to get Canadian and US silver bullion with spots and nicks the equivalent of &quot;bag marks&quot;, ugly toning and such. </p><p><br /></p><p>I think you may yet be on the fence with thinking like a collector with careful eye for problem coins but starting to acquire bullion pieces that don&#039;t follow these same quality issues. </p><p><br /></p><p>Are you collecting coins made of precious metals, collecting collectible bullion or buying bullion? You&#039;ll have to hone what you are after and how you buy them according to your tastes and intentions, as well as mind your budget for loss in time and return costs, buying gimmicky &quot;exclusive&quot; bullion marketed by bullion dealers and mints, to get higher premiums for what&#039;s essentially bullion. There has been SO MUCH of this stuff in recent years, especially from APMEX and Perth Mint, that I caution you in what you acquire depending on the kind of initial entry into these pieces you seemed to be buying them for. Just be careful of how much you sink into this stuff before you figure out the route that best suits you. The market for graded and &quot;exclusive&quot; bullion can disappear in an instant and to try to recoup what you put into it in a currently weak or falling PM market could be a costly one.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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