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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Troodon, post: 1616024, member: 4626&quot;]Cheapest way to get a 70 is to buy one raw and submit it yourself and hope it comes back 70.&nbsp; About one of the few times having a coin graded is actually a wise investment move.&nbsp; Depends on luck of the draw though, both in getting a raw 70 and having the TPG decide it is on the day you submitted it though, so this is as useful investment advice as &quot;buy a winning lottery ticket&quot; lol... but there you go.</p><p><br /></p><p>In my personal opinion I just don&#039;t see it as worth it to pay a premium for a 70 that to the naked eye doesn&#039;t look much better than a 69 or sometimes even a 68, for a coin that&#039;s otherwise a fairly common piece of bullion anyway.&nbsp; As a collector who couldn&#039;t care much less whether anything I own goes up in value, as I don&#039;t intend on selling anything in my collection during my lifetime if I can help it, I just don&#039;t see the opportunity cost as worth it.&nbsp; That premium I&#039;d have to spend to get a slabbed 70 is money I could be spending on more coins.&nbsp; Slabbed 70&#039;s are probably decent investments but as a pure collector I just can&#039;t see it as worth it.&nbsp; I only own two ASEs myself; a 2006 proof I received as a gift that is still in its original packaging, and a 2007 uncirculated I got for my type set.&nbsp; It&#039;s a nice design and all but I&#039;d rather have more variety in my collection so I just can&#039;t see myself buying more bullion, and if I were ever to buy more it would be to increase the variety in my collection.&nbsp; I would love it if the US did with its bullion coins like what China does with their Pandas; change the design every year so there&#039;s some actual significant variety to make it worth collecting more than one for a reason other than pure investment.&nbsp; (US Mint does this with their platinum coins; they should do it for their gold and silver too.)&nbsp; Then I&#039;d actually get excited about collecting more of them.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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