COA Number - Low COA Number Vs Good Series Of Numbers

Certain numbers matter to certain collectors based on cultural or collectible. I don't care for specific numbers nor would I pay a premium for one.

Bit far to put the average joe that prefers one number over another to bigfoot die-hards.
COA numbers for coin collectors seems like the serial numbers is for paper-money collectors. There's always a crowd willing to pay a bit extra for a neat string of numbers.

Personally, unless it's #1 of or the last one, only numbers with significant personal meaning will, well, have meaning. For example, I bought a kilo silver coin the month my wife and I got married in hopes to one day flip it and coin's COA number happens to be the date we got married. Needless to say, that coin is now tucked away in the do-not-sell bin

I think, you better specify, what is the coin, please.
I, for example, do not collect the gold coins, and do not recall any popular gold coin series.

Is it 2013 Gold Superman?
Although, #1 COA doesn't really add the value, but people would like probably to pay more for it....couple of hundreds maybe?

I wish it were the 2013 Gold Superman! Not that lucky, although I have a few "non #1" 2013 golds in the collection!

The coin I just purchased was the Superman 2015 gold coin (Superman #4 - 1940). The coin was offered by Colonial Acres in their Boxing Day blowout sale: http://www.colonialacres.com/produc...-coin-146354

I've never had COA #1 on any coin, so when the opportunity came up to purchase this coin, I jumped (despite recently paying "below issue" for a couple of these gold coins). I know COA #1 might not mean anything to a few collectors, but the novelty appealed to me. After all, who else can claim that they have certificate #1 on this series?!

I figured that if the novelty aspect of the certificate ever waned on my end, I could simply resell it down the line. The big question is - how much of a premium would this coin fetch in the open market in the "long term"?

I will agree with John, but will not expect much.
You already paid (CAD 200?) premium for #1, so that's probably expected market price.

As for the long term...probably no NCLT with the exception of some "first" / "limited" / "classic design" keep the value.

And congrats for nice coin (I like the design of 2015 gold) with numbered #1 certificate.

Never know unless you try or you are happy keeping it.

I would agree with that statement as this has happened to myself on occasion (2009 Moon Mask for example). The certificates are entirely randomly inserted from what I understood. Case in point I ordered the $3 Flanders fields coins numbered 06269 and 06334 at the same time.

Also a lower number is just a lower number and does not have any real correlation to strike quality. Likewise a higher certificate number won't imply die wear or abnormalities.

It's just a number but if you're collecting something specific like 00001 8888, 9999 or 05, etc then good luck. I drove the poor Mint officials nuts in Halifax having them go through their proof sets looking for specific number and finally ended up with parchment 47/200.

Back a few years ago when the RCM was selling souvenir 'PL' sets at the RCNA Conventions, I found that the quality of coins were the same throughout, no matter what the back of the folder said. Sadly all were circulation strikes, but that's a different subject matter all together.

Here on this side of the border packaging and minting are completely two separate entities and thankfully we haven't jumped on the 'first strike' bandwagon.

For me all that matters is the quality and presentation of the NCLT coin and if it's going to hold most of it's value in a few years time. The certificate is nice as it 'validates' the coin but doesn't prove the authenticity.