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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;LJRambo111, post: 2249269, member: 21706&quot;]I was a collector kinda like a sport collecting silver and wheat penny&#039;s. Then because I can&#039;t sleep more than 5 hrs a night I saw their show in 2003. they were selling a PF 70 silver buffalo for like 500.00. Silver was around 4.70 / oz. I started doing my research I saw ebay was like half the price. I then noticed I could buy and grade them at NGC. The usmint web site was easy to find but the collectors society was a bit hard to find. Now I found the Silver eagles that my son was getting for his birthday could be graded. and the 1993 and the 1994 were big money. My quest began. I graded the 1994 and 1993 and got a 70 for the 1994. Basicly I am saying that Robert Chambers made me rich because he taught me the value of grading both proof and mint state silver eagles. I couldnt believe the 1995 W price. it was like 8,000.00 dollars. Whish I would have bought one. I did buy a set of 10th anniversary silver eagles. Mine came in as PF69. I now own a complete set of silver eagles PF70 with the exception of the 1995 which is a pf69. But I also boughtt about 300 sets of the 20th silver eagles for about an average price of 150.00 each. can you believe My average of grading these coins were about 40% of 70&#039;s. So I didn&#039;t buy much from the Coin Vault ( I bought the 20th anniversary MS70 Blue label for 1500.00 Broke even.) but I got motivated by the show and learned how to buy and grade my own coins. Still watch with regret that 10th anniversary which sells for a lowest price of 17900.00 from APMEX&nbsp; But I have lots of perfect sets because I used the coin vault as an educational tool.</p><p>Loving the Buffalos investment. Yes most of my buffalos were graded by me. same for my proof and MS eagles, not to mention my Silver pf70 statehood quarters. I was an ebay addict for price shopping since about the year 2000.[ATTACH=full]444811[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Robert Chambers taught me a lot. Love the anniversary eagle sets. can&#039;t wait until next year for the 30th. RIP Robert Chmbers. I couldn&#039;t watch the show but always recorded it then fast forward through it. Thanks to DDR.</p><p><br /></p><p>I can remember when you were lucky to get 10% of MS70 from silver eagle bullion coins. The mint has improved their minting process so much that you can almost get 50% now. It doesn&#039;t pay to grade them now though, I get them from ebay now.&nbsp; Ebay, initative, research and the US Mint website and blogs were the biggest addition to my collections.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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