2012 Unc Silver Eagle

clairhardesty makes a good point. The mint is in fact a business, and it costs money to keep the lights on, pay salaries, do marketing, etc., let alone buy silver blanks & packaging and mint the coins. I realize they only charge AP's $2/bullion coin, but they're probably not making any money on it at that point. Also they don't have collectors' interests in mind for the bullion version.

If you look at the silver quarters sets, they're selling for $41.95 right now. With $1.25 face of 90% silver, that's currently a little under $25 for the silver. That's a 68% markup, very similar to the ASE. Looks like there may be a forumla in play here.

...and appropriately the 2012 proof ASE is "temporarily unavailable" ...no mention why

Production issue? repricing? error discovered?

I can't see why they would reprice since spot silver is just churning around $27 unless it will be a downward revision....

I guess that would be a reason....but since spot was a tad over $32 when first issued I would think a $5 or so reduction in price...

I hope so too, but it's unlikely at this point with Ag back up to 27.50-ish. It will probably be listed for sale again at its previous price.

I'm not sure if I'd rush out and buy another one or two even if the price did drop $5. If I were holding out and hadn't already gotten mine for the year, I'd definitely pounce then.

I got my notification as well, It seems I had forgotten I had a subscription.
But now I'm a bit confused. Someone said there are to be 5 ASE's minted this year but somehow I can only account for 4. The 2 S minted in the set, the bullion coin which was already realeased, and now the uncirc. Whats the 5th coin?

Edit, DOH I forgot about the regular proof coin, thats from the Philly mint right? So there will be 2 S mints 1W, and 2 with no mintmarks if I am correct.

You could say 6 as I think SF did some of the bullion this year as well.

The bullion coins are minted at both W and SF mints but that provenance only exists for coins slabbed directly from monster boxes so the "purists" among us won't count two because you cannot tell them apart just by looking at the coins. The mint will count five distinct coins as well. Whether you count five or six, both are correct because they are counting the same coins and the final number is an individual collector choice. To me, counting the bullion as two is a lot like counting the provenance of packaging, and that would require counting the W uncirculated in the "United States Mint Annual Uncirculated Dollar Coin Set" and the W proof in the "Making American History Coin and Currency Set" as distinct coins as well, and I don't wish to do that, even though I probably will buy both items.