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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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Nice to know, thanks Notherncoins for update!
Btw, which capsule size is good for Copper Maple Leaf round?
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Pillar of the Community
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Pillar of the Community
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40-41's. Thank you, great, I have the 40' Air-tite, and on morning got some set of 6 Dinosaurs copper rounds (for my kid), still waiting for Maple Leaf from CA. |
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Has anyone found somewhere I can pick up a single X38 without dropping $6 in shipping, too?
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Canada
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I'm coming to this topic a little late but here's my opinion on the 8 dollar polar bear. I love the weight of it, sometimes I've thought about putting it in my pocket as kind of a lucky charm. It would be awesome for deciding flips etc. The art is good but even for Canadian bullion it is stuck poorly (at least mine is). I bought it for about $15.00 below issue price but even that seems kind of expensive. Do I like it as a collectable? No....but I'm good with having one and odds are it might end up in my pocket. Carriing on the 1.5 ounce idea would be great however. Silver (and gold) is still on sale globally. Producing a series of coins with the normal diameter of most one ounce issues with 1 1/2 ounces making them a collection of piedfort coins (extra thick) would be awesome. RCM continues to raise the pice of their coins why not at an exta $13.00 worh of silver. |
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Canada
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Sometimes is nice and informative to return to old topics. here some observation about this coin: I bought 2 coins from the same source, both of them where clean and perfect, but: one has been stored in X38 airtite capsule (with perfect closure) in the Lighthouse 6-cells box for quadrums in the top shelf of the cabinet. the second stored in the RCM capsule for Crystall/Murano Glass coin in the Lighhouse Volterra big wooden case (60 cells) on the bottom shelf of the same cabinet. And what I see - the rims of the first coin became "fogged-white" and the second - clear as new. Too many factors, but these the facts. Yes, the design is poor. Nice to keep as unusual bullion. |
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Interesting Silveroid , it makes me wonder what coins are going to discolor and for what reason later on....just by looking at the fit of the lighthouse brand capsules I can see that they are not an airtight fit, they are made with tiny bumps to keep the two halfs together which appears to cause a small air gap. Anyone else notice that?
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Yes, the Lighthouse capsules are good, but I think, they not positioned as "air-tite" (lets say actually no capsule is air-tite). So the Lighthouse capsules easy to open/close, and I assuming that there exists some air flow... I much more prefer the capsules that Mints using - RCM, Perth, China...or these, which officially called "air-tites". Need also to say, it depends on the coin too, and the worst durability show unfortunately RCM and Austrian bullion, tiny milkspots observed on the Somalia Elephant coins. |
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Canada
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Hi. First time poster. I just found this forum while researching a 1.5 Toz Polar Bear coin I saw for sale on Kijiji. My first thought was, why would a 1.5 Troy ounce of silver coin be minted with a face value of only $8? Can someone please explain the logic of that? Aren't the RCM "twenty dollars for $20" coins only 1/4oz silver coins? Wouldn't all new coins be minted with a face value higher than the intrinsic melt value of the coin?  I am confused.  Kevin from Canada  |
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this 15 oz. coin is a bullion coin like the silver maple leafs with a 5 dollar value, the other coins are nclt with higher and other odd denominations, almost all 1 oz. recent nclt are priced at 99.00 or higher.
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@Kevin:
Those (similar) were my question about NCLT near to 4 years ago:
"Shall I get $20 (1oz) coin for $70 or $10 (1/2oz) for $30"?
Do not look on the denominations of NCLT (not include "20for20" and "100for100"- different story), but buy the coin with the characteristics and theme that you like, and according to your budget.
As explained me one dealer - the denomination on the bullion ($5 for SML) protects buyer in case, if price for silver drops less then $5 per oz (so your coin will still worth the denomination value - here I doubt).
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NCLT is essence has no face value, banks don'y have to take irçt.
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RCM has just released 2013 8 Dollar Silver 1.5oz Polar Bear coin. In case I missed something, is there any difference to the same coin released previously?
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RCM has just released 2013 8 Dollar Silver 1.5oz Polar Bear coin. In case I missed something, is there any difference to the same coin released previously? Yes the newly released 1.5oz polar bear is a proof version of the 1.5oz bullion version. Should be a decent coin. |
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Canada
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THe proof 1.5 bear is cool, if I had not bought the bullion one I'd be buying it. I do however have the bullion so I'll take a pass on the proof one.
I was just thinking, I have an F15 box that is empty, I wonder what 15 proof 1.5 polar bears would look like in those square holes, I'll have to see if my bullion one fits. Let me think $124.95 X 15 = $1874.25. I'll have to think about it....nope that's a little rich for me.
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