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<p>[QUOTE="jimmyrules712, post: 606445, member: 10367"]I understand the collectible aspect of them that you bring up but all that means is they are equivalent to commemoratives or other non-legal tender collectibles. The fact that people are willing to pay more for them than they are worth does not mean they should be considered real legal tender (or whatever the coin version of legal tender is?)</p><p><br /></p><p>This is mainly because I'm a bit of a perfectionist...and I decided long ago that I will only spend money on collecting coins that are, or used to be, real government issued spendable money, not coins that are collectibles or commemoratives. So deciding on whether or not ASE's fall into this category is important to me despite the stupidity of it.</p><p><br /></p><p>I'm also setting out to maintain a complete $1 coin set from Ike's to date and am trying to decide whether to include ASE's in that as well as other special $1 coins that the mint has issued.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="jimmyrules712, post: 606445, member: 10367"]I understand the collectible aspect of them that you bring up but all that means is they are equivalent to commemoratives or other non-legal tender collectibles. The fact that people are willing to pay more for them than they are worth does not mean they should be considered real legal tender (or whatever the coin version of legal tender is?) This is mainly because I'm a bit of a perfectionist...and I decided long ago that I will only spend money on collecting coins that are, or used to be, real government issued spendable money, not coins that are collectibles or commemoratives. So deciding on whether or not ASE's fall into this category is important to me despite the stupidity of it. I'm also setting out to maintain a complete $1 coin set from Ike's to date and am trying to decide whether to include ASE's in that as well as other special $1 coins that the mint has issued.[/QUOTE]
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