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<p>[QUOTE="-jeffB, post: 4001042, member: 27832"]That's a sleeper for sure, but... there's no guarantee a sleeper will ever wake up.</p><p><br /></p><p>The whole First Spouse Gold series is <i>full</i> of sleepers, with plenty of mintages well under 5000, but still trading at little premium over melt. In fact, they're so far under the radar that <b>I can't find final mintage figures</b> for the last few issues. Most of the sites reporting mintages just sort of lost interest before the series even got to its end.</p><p><br /></p><p>With each coin containing half an ounce of gold (expensive base price), their collecting base is always going to be limited. As non-circulating coinage, they <i>just aren't very interesting</i> to many collectors. I don't see the series taking off during my lifetime, and probably not during my children's lifetimes -- and I'm not sure anyone will even <i>remember</i> the series after that.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="-jeffB, post: 4001042, member: 27832"]That's a sleeper for sure, but... there's no guarantee a sleeper will ever wake up. The whole First Spouse Gold series is [I]full[/I] of sleepers, with plenty of mintages well under 5000, but still trading at little premium over melt. In fact, they're so far under the radar that [B]I can't find final mintage figures[/B] for the last few issues. Most of the sites reporting mintages just sort of lost interest before the series even got to its end. With each coin containing half an ounce of gold (expensive base price), their collecting base is always going to be limited. As non-circulating coinage, they [I]just aren't very interesting[/I] to many collectors. I don't see the series taking off during my lifetime, and probably not during my children's lifetimes -- and I'm not sure anyone will even [I]remember[/I] the series after that.[/QUOTE]
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