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Message:: [QUOTE="Conder101, post: 1350803, member: 66"]I think the early First Spouse coins will wind up being melt price coins, there were just too many of them.  But some of the more recent ones do have some potential.  I don't think they will be runaway high value items because frankly they will only really be of interest to someone who wants to put together the set and that won't be too many people.  But still I think a US gold coin with a mintage of only 1,300 coins  is NOT going to sell for melt value.  maybe melt plus 25%.  And if gold prices ever do fall back in a significant way I think you will see them selling at a MUCH higher premium over melt.  Why because with a much lower cost for the common ones, a lot more people will start putting together the set.  I mean if I have to pay over $800 apiece for even the most common ones, I'm not going to collect the set.  But if they were only $350 apiece a lot more people are going to think "yeah I can swing that." Unfortunately what would hurt the set then and put a damper on it would be that the extra collecting pressure would make the low mintage coins a lot higher, and the set has a LOT of low mintage coins.  Of course their base bullion value would also be lower, so if the commons got down to the $350 level, I could see the low mintage pieces staying around where they are now.[/QUOTE]