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| What Is Your Preferred Way To Stack Gold?
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BadDog
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United States
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 Posted 05/02/2025 3:54 pm
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...why? why avoid goldbacks?
IMHO when you buy any type of gold bullion, what you want to look at is the buy/sell spread. It's easy to buy, but may not be easy to sell.
At Vermillion Enterprises (bullion dealer in Fl that posts buy sell spreads on YouTube), for American Eagles, the spread on 1 ozt is around 4%, on 1/2 around 5% and on 1/4 & 1/10 ozt it's around 7%.
I've never bought or sold a Goldback, but are the buy/sell spreads comparable to this? are they as liquid as American Eagles? I'd want to answer these two questions before stacking them. |
| | Forum: Precious Metals and Bullion - Gold, Silver, Copper, Platinum |
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| Uncirculated Five Dollar Bills
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BadDog
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United States
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Posted 04/25/2025 1:05 pm
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Assuming you're getting these at face value of $5 each, then get as many as you want.
You can try to sell them on eBay or elsewhere for $8-$10 each (more if you get a fancy serial number). If they don't sell, you can just re-deposit them and you're only cost is your time. |
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| Best Place To Buy Bullion These Days?
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BadDog
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United States
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Posted 04/25/2025 11:44 am
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Pre-64 quarters are going to be 90% .715 oz silver no matter how shiny they are. BU ? Circulated ? What difference does it make ?
The difference is a $1 FV of Pre-65 BU quarters will contain .72336 ozt of silver and a $1 FV of average circulated Pre-65 is sold by most bullion dealers as containing .715 ozt of silver.
The thing is, the .715 ozt per $1 FV is just a standard pricing technique. Few, if any dealers, actually weigh the coins to see what the actual silver weight (ASW) is. Even if they do weigh the coins part of that weight is dirt and grime, unless they've been cleaned first, which is rarely, if ever, done.
So, like I said, some people want BU rolls to ensure they're getting full silver value even though the actual difference is likely to be very small. Plus, if they have the time and patience, they have the potential of selling the individual coins with a collector's premium if they're so inclined. There is no collector's premium for "junk" silver, hence the name.
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| Best Place To Buy Bullion These Days?
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BadDog
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United States
1333 Posts |
Posted 04/24/2025 1:58 pm
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Why are you comparing BU prices to average circulated prices.
Monument Metals sells both BU rolls and average circulated rolls. As I write this, their price for a BU roll of Washington quarters is $312.60 and their price for an average circulated roll is $253.90 (with silver listed at $33.58 per ozt on their website).
There's no guarantee that an average circulated roll will actually weigh out at the industry standard of .715 ozt per $1 face so some folks prefer to get the BU roll to ensure they're getting full silver value. It's up to them to decide if the BU premium is worth it. |
| | Forum: Precious Metals and Bullion - Gold, Silver, Copper, Platinum |
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| Pinehurst Coins On Ebay? Bullion?
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BadDog
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United States
1333 Posts |
Posted 03/19/2025 08:03 am
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 Pinehurst is a reputable dealer on eBay. I've ordered various items (coins and bullion) from them over the years via eBay.
Pinehurst used to be independently owned but they are now 100% owned by A-Mark (used to be 49% but last month A-Mark bought the other 51%). A-Mark also bought Stacks Bowers Galleries at the same time.
If you're not familiar with A-Mark, they are a publicly traded company on the NASDAQ (symbol AMRK), a direct Authorized Purchaser from the US Mint and the owner of various precious metals dealers including JM Bullion, Provident Metals, BGSAC (Buy Gold and Silver Coins), BullionMax, SIlver Gold Bull, Silver Towne Mint, Goldline, Silver.com, Gold.com and Modern Coin Mart. |
| | Forum: Precious Metals and Bullion - Gold, Silver, Copper, Platinum |
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| Pictures Of All Modern $5 Gold Commemoratives
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BadDog
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Posted 03/19/2025 07:29 am
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Can't find final mintage figures on the 2021, 2022 and 2024 modern commemorative proof $5 coins.
This probably should be a separate topic, but you can get this information on the US Mint's website. The old website made it easy as it had this information in tabular form for each commemorative. It's not nearly as easy with the new website 
Here's how to get the mintages,
1) go to the Mint's Cumulative Sales Figures webpage
2) enter a date 2 or 3 months after the end of the year you're interested in (try different days on the month until you find one with a report)
3) search on yyC (where yy are the last 2 digits of the year)
4) for proof half eagles, you'll need to add the mintages of the single coin and the three coin set (if there was one) together
The report mintages should be the final mintages, but you can check by adding another month to the report date and see if anything changed. If the mintages do change, then just keep checking later dates until they don't.
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| | Forum: US Commemoratives and Non-Circulating Coinage (NCLT) Including Grading, Varieties, and Errors |
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| Buy Sell Spread On Gold And Silver
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BadDog
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United States
1333 Posts |
Posted 03/05/2025 8:55 pm
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Seems like most dealers don't post their buy/sell prices on bullion, but there are some that do.
Check out Vermillion Enterpises on YouTube. Brian generally posts a daily video with buy/sell prices as a percentage of spot. The catch is unless you're local to them, you have to mail the bullion to them and their buy/sell percentage as well as spot may change in the interim.
JM Bullion has a sell to us feature that shows their buy prices. Some other online dealers do as well on at least some items. |
| | Forum: Precious Metals and Bullion - Gold, Silver, Copper, Platinum |
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| Plate Position Arithmetic - Strange Serial Number
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BadDog
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United States
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Posted 09/30/2024 09:22 am
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Another thing about these two notes (which I forgot to look at initially  ), you can tell whether a $1 FRN was printed on a 50 or 32 subject sheet by looking at the size of the plate position number on the note (see the BEPs discussion here). If the letter and number are the same size, then it was printed on a 50 subject sheet. If they're different sizes then it was printed on a 32 subject sheet.
As can be seen in the above photograph, the plate position number has the same size letter and number (E3), so it was printed on a 50 subject sheet and therefor was printed using the LEPE process.
So, why doesn't the plate position number correspond to the plate position number expected for that serial number? Definitely something strange going on that at least I don't understand |
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| 2021 Friedberg Number Question
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BadDog
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Posted 09/29/2024 10:07 am
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Steve said
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Your best bet for finding modern Friedberg numbers is to check the PMG population report. It shows the Friedberg numbers next to the series description.
I think this is probably a reliable method for finding the Friedberg # for a note that you have in hand (if that FRB series has had any notes graded) , but I believe that those population reports also have some inaccuracies in them.
For example, according to the BEP monthly reports, series 2017 Boston FRB $1 FRNs were only printed at the WDC facility in Jul 2018 AA blocks, Aug 2018 AA blocks, Oct 2018 AB - AC blocks and A*, Oct 2019 A* and Nov 2019 AC blocks and A*. All of these notes have Friedberg # 3003-A or 3003-A*.
Series 2017A Boston FRB $1 FRNs began being printed by the WDC facility in Dec 2019, so the Nov 2019 runs ended the printing of the series 2017 notes.
The PMG Population report for series 2017 $1 FRNs currently indicates that 147 Fr. 3003-A notes printed at the WDC facility have been graded in blocks A*, AA, AB and AC. Probably accurate, but I believe that technically the * notes should have Friedberg # 3003-A*.
That same PMG Population report also indicates that 19 Fr. 3004-A notes printed at the Fort Worth facility have been graded in blocks AB and AC. The only problem is that according to BEP reports there weren't any 2017 Boston FRB $1 FRNs printed at the Fort Worth facility 
So, there's a problem with either the PMG population report or the BEPs reports of what notes were printed. My guess is that it's a PMG mistake and those notes were actually printed at the WDC facility or they aren't Boston FRB notes.
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