5 Ounce America The Beautiful National Park Silver Quarters

Let's start with the fact that these NCLTs have more in common with coasters than coins.

Will the stupid things even fit in a standard lock box?

Most commems, even the old halves, have very little collector interest.

Best plays:

1) get them at less than bullion value from a place forced to sell them for that
2) get them quickly and dump them before everyone has them
3) try for a high grade and dump them on suckers astute investors who think there's actually a difference between ms68 and ms69
4) get them and hope the price of silver goes up enough to make a profit

For anyone who wants to get a peek at their future value, do an ebay search for Panama 20 balboa, which have $143 in scrap @ $37.10.

1.Collectors demand for 70's.

2.Dealers buying them for there own reasons.

3.The market sets the value.

BF has some great points.

Your too funny

Congrats winner winner chicken dinner.

Have you guys noticed the hiker on the rim of the cyn next to unum on the reverse of the grand cyn ?

The u.s. mints nine authorized purchaser's 2010 ATB 5oz price recap !

1. A-Mark of ca $975 shipped

2. APMEX of ok $860 shipped

3. Gold Center of Ill $975 shipped

4. Fidelitrade of de $930 shipped

5. MTB of ny $930 shipped

6. Jack Hunt of ny $949 shipped

7. Coins-n-things of mass $930 + $170 in pre 1965 90% silver to bring it to $1100 to avoid mass state taxes.

8. Dillon Gage of tx unknown ?

9. Prudential of NY Only sold coins through a special phone line cost unknown.

10.Scotia Mocatta of NY no participation.

11.Commerzbank of ny no participation.

Wish I knew APMEX was selling them for $860 shipped. Those couldn't have lasted long.

I didn't realize APMEX had to refund $550 on the sets they already sold. Wonder what they did with the rest of their allocation? They list them as sold out.

***Let the fun begin, again!


This article was originally printed in Numismatic News.

http://numismaticnews.net/article/Ready_for_Getty/

The 2011 5-ounce America the Beautiful silver bullion coin honoring Gettysburg National Military Park is slated to go on sale the end of April.

It will be allocated to the U.S. Mint's list of Authorized Purchasers who can verify that they sold all of the 2010 five-coin ATB sets they received.

But this time around, the AP's won't be limited in how many they can sell to one individual. That should get the coins into the hands of local dealers faster.

"After the AP purchases the coins from the United States Mint, there will be no restrictions on sales in the secondary market," said Tom Jurkowsky, Mint director of public affairs.

The actual cost of the coins has not yet been determined by the Mint, Jurkowsky said, but it will reflect the current market price of silver, which is now hovering around $36 an ounce.

The Mint charged AP's a $9.75 premium per coin for the 2010 ATB bullion coins and limited the markup they could charge. Jurkowsky said the premium charged for the 2011 coins will be the same, but there will be no limit on markups for the 2011 coins.

As for the numismatic versions of the 2010 ATB silver coins, Jurkowsky said the Mint is targeting the end of April for the sale of the first numismatic uncirculated coin featuring the Hot Springs National park design. There will 27,000 of those coins available directly from the Mint.