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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;19Lyds, post: 2198851, member: 15929&quot;]Well, just so the record is straight, the US Mint never offered a 10th Anniversary Silver Eagle Set. They offered a 10th Anniversary Gold Eagle Set which had a Silver Eagle in it at $999.00. Gold was at about $400 an ounce and the price of the set kept a lot of folks from ordering. The internet was in it&#039;s infancy and eBay was just barely born! Set registry&#039;s were non-existent and the Silver Eagle from the set could be had for $500.</p><p>It wasn&#039;t until the early 2000&#039;s before the Silver Eagle gained any appreciative pricing and that was mainly due to the scarcity of high grade coins in slabs.</p><p><br /></p><p>As for collecting the Presidential Proofs? I believe that folks collect them simply because they are easy and there&#039;s so doggoned many of them! I&#039;m staring at a stack of 2008-2009 Signature coins that I&#039;ve contemplated putting up on eBay for close to a year now. The only reason I don&#039;t is that I&#039;m just not that eager to take the financial whipping which will come with the sale of the coins. I might as well crackem out and deposit them in the bank!</p><p><br /></p><p>You are rright about the Silver Eagles though. Very Affordable big hunks of silver that come the closest to a Morgan Dollar than any other coin which, I assume, is why they are so popular. However, even those suffer from suckdom in this depressed coin economy. I recently took a serious whipping on about 20 I&#039;ve sold over the past two weeks.</p><p><br /></p><p>My position has always been that the market for the RP Presidential is HOT. But it&#039;s only hot for right now, meaning, this year. In 5 years, folks will completely forget about them and I expect that the PR70 coins &quot;may&quot; reel in a few $200 sales. The price on them has already started to slide. ($3601 - $1675 has got to be a tough pill to swallow in only 7 days!)</p><p><br /></p><p>The popularity of the Presidential Dollars just isn&#039;t there over the long run. Even removing the dollar bill from circulation isn&#039;t going to change that.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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