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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Blaubart, post: 1545206, member: 37498&quot;]Playing Devil&#039;s Advocate again:</p><p><br /></p><p>Silver coins should be priced at their silver value, not the collector&#039;s value.&nbsp; If coin collectors want to collect coins, then let them collect cupro nickel coins.&nbsp; There are plenty of them out there.</p><p><br /></p><p>Unfortunately, this isn&#039;t a perfect world for either coin or bullion collectors.&nbsp; There are coins that don&#039;t have PM content, and there are coins/bars that don&#039;t have collector&#039;s value, but if people are going to sell silver coins at a price that&#039;s closer to spot than I can buy ASE&#039;s for, then I&#039;m going to buy them.</p><p><br /></p><p>There is one way to get bullion collectors to stop interfering with your collecting: Price silver coins so they have a higher markup than bullion coins.&nbsp; Sure, you&#039;ll have to pay more to get what you want, but at least they&#039;ll be available for you.</p><p><br /></p><p>Unfortunately (again), this isn&#039;t how a free market works...</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m primarily a bullion collector, but I also like silver coins.&nbsp; I wouldn&#039;t be happy if my collection consisted of only ASE&#039;s, or ASE&#039;s and silver rounds.&nbsp; I like the fact that I have some silver coins that have some history behind them, and I&#039;m willing to pay what the silver in them is worth to get them.&nbsp; So, if you want silver coins, you&#039;ll have to compete with me to buy them.</p><p><br /></p><p>The inverse is probably also true.&nbsp; I don&#039;t suspect you or the OP collect silver coins for the sake of accumulating silver, but rather for the numismatic value.&nbsp; You probably wouldn&#039;t be happy if you limited yourself to cupro-nickel coins.&nbsp; If I want to buy silver coins that do have some numismatic value, then I&#039;ll have to compete with you to buy them.</p><p><br /></p><p>Sounds fair to me...[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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