Painted ASE

My brother gave me a couple of bullion pieces that were painted ASE why do they paint these up like that don't make them worth anymore going to give them my grandkids I guess. Anybody have any of these? if so I guess there still silver in them.. JUST CURIOUS WHAT THERE GOOD FOR ??

 

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They are pretty...

 

Well heck my wife just told me if I give these two my grandkids I got to three more and give to other grandkids its not fair just giving to oldest two and not the others. I looked on the flea bay they want 22.00 and up plus shipping.. another fine mess my brother got me into........again.....

 

sell the painted/(damaged) ASE's and get them all a 2016 1 oz bullion ASE, you can get good deals on lots of 5...

 

Silver will go up and your gifts will look even better.

 

I hate that "it's not fair argument" life isn't fair plus it's not like you won't get the others stuff too. That logic irks me the same as the participation trophy nonsense.

Anyway back on subject. Yes, companies do this to get a premium for them from granny's and grandpa's etc who don't know coins from hard candies and want gifts for the grandkids etc. To us, we don't pay premiums for them though some of us will pay a premium for an excellent piece of art like hand laid glass enameled ones or ones of high quality etc. The generic ones that look like stickers that were slightly mis aligned when stuck or look like they were printed from a dot matrix printer are crap which is 95% of painted ase's.

Fyi, in most cases you can remove the color or sticker by soaking in acetone overnight. Or just sell them on ebay and buy clean ones if it bugs you. But bullion is bullion so who cares if it's painted. You may just get more $ for them relative to a bu white one from eBay bidiots

 

Children like pretty things. A RW&B SE will get the vote 10 times out of ten.

 

Maybe 9.8 times out of 10.

 

Not promoting them, but govmint.com has ASE's for $17.95 (haven't looked lately), you can use a credit card with no increase, and free shipping over $150

 

Painted ASEs are another in the long line of gimmicks to separate people from more of their money. Apparently it works often enough.

 

good thing then, children do not get to vote!

 

Oh, BUT THEY DO.

 

I like this type painted but don't own one myself.

 

Well I owned two by accident (brother gave them to me) going to own 3 more if can get at 17.00 a piece then I will be done and rid of them...

 

I have a couple of these from a mixture that I got. They remind of the "enhanced" ones that were in a Mint set a few years ago (vice versa, actually, as I had these before the enhanced came out).

 

The enhanced ASE did harken back the painted variety, didn't it? My thoughts when first I viewed them (2013) a few years ago.

 

SO do you still got them Garlicus or you sell them off.. were they from mint the ones I got came in a blue mint box maybe someone just used the box to ship them I guess..

 

I still have them. Mine came loose, possibly in airtights.

 

Will admit to buying a colored 100 yen coin at a flea market years ago. Dropped the case once (as you can see)