I recently received this 2020 Silver Eagle from APMEX and as I was looking through my purchases I noticed this “half moon” tone or stain on my sealed package. Kinda looks like another coin laid on it or maybe is a mint error? Any ideas?
That coin might have been minted 6 months ago. The US Mint makes most coins several months ahead of official release.
So educate me.. I've never dealt with APMEX. Did you buy this in bulk without seeing the coin first?.... or did you order it like that?
You don't see the actual piece when purchasing bullion, only collector coins. Apmex is a good company IMHO. I'm sure they'll swap it out if you call them.
Rubber bands can oxidize coins right through a plastic slab. It makes me nervous to see coins strapped together with them.
I know that, but the mint ships these things out to 'bulk buyers' in monster boxes. I've never encountered such phenomena.
Is the plastic that Apmex sells them in contributing to this as well? The plastic bag is obviously Apmex's and maybe as a temporary storage bag it has chemicals that reacted with the rubber band?
My knee jerk reaction is telltale rubber band toning. But the Apmex packaging shows that it was packaged on 1/10/20. Surely that isn’t enough time to impart that much damage..... The good thing is that Apmex is a first class outfit and I am sure they would make it right for you.
Don't convince yourself to deceive your eyes or knowledge. And don't *assume* anything. If you buy a US MINT strapped monster box then you can be assured it came that way. If you buy a tube, even a 2020 tube you actually do *not* know if it's an unopened tube. With silver prices wildly moving it could have changed hands multiple times already. And tubes can be broken apart and put back together with individual ASEs ... as you are assuming it came from a tube? If you buy an individual ASE you can *assume* it's been bought/sold some already and was received back as an individual ASE (not in a tube). It clearly looks like a rubber band or something similar was around/on it. You do not know it's history, even if it is a short period of time. You do not know how it was stored, etc even for the short time it's been out. So let your eyes and knowledge guide you and don't assume anything. I live near a gasoline refinery. If I drive past the place with exposed silver in my car I'd be afraid all my silver would turn black from the sulphur in the air. lol But if I sold those back, who would ever know why? If you want a nice, clean ASE you could send it back. But then would you incur shipping charges, etc ?? Then if this is an "investments' those shipping charges are now lopped on the breakeven cost for that ASE. That really should not be a "BU" but a "cull" ASE. So if you bought a BU then APMEX should replace it for you as it clearly is a Cull.
