So How Weak Is The Commemorative Market?

I take what I can get.

Having coin is not coined.

Money is an object.

If you read on this forum when someone posts a CSS, you get all kinds of folks who have never even seen one or knew they existed.

There is so much "stuff" to collect, with the mint spitting stuff out at an unheard of pace, that newer collectors are enamored of the new commemorative, which I would have thought would have led some back to the classics. But it hasn't happened yet.

The last two years, in particular, I've had to raise my expected price on some CSS several times before I was finally within fighting range at auction. If you compare the prices of some CSS, with mintage's under 10,000, in high Mint State, that can be had for ridiculously cheap prices it's plain silly not to have at least a few.

On the Stacks-Bowers sale that concluded a couple weeks ago, I won a 1935/1934 Boone is beautiful bright white, with a mintage of 10,008, in MS-66 - YES 66 - for $188.00 INCLUDING BP. I mean, come on. Does it take a genius to figure out these prices are nutso cheap?

Every time I see one of those stupid 2015(P) ASE selling for $500, and they are selling for that price every single day, with a "mintage" of 80,000 or so, and I compare what you could get with that same $500 in CSS, it makes me ill.

Want the best investment in the world? Take 10 million, which is nothing to some (not many, but some). Buy every high end CSS, excluding common date stuff over 60,000 mintage, in higher end grades. Suck them all out of ebay. Eat them up on Heritage and Stacks. In general, just buy them all that sell in the next year, or until you've eaten 10 Mil worth.

Suddenly, as prices start rising, they will again shine in the light.

Buying at the bottom is here, right now. That's my crystal ball. Actually my dog, Toby, just lets me use his.

I enjoy and have have nearly a full set of the type set of early silver coins. The market if very flat on these recently and I do not see a resergance in the near future. They are an impressive set in an album and being one short after a lifetime search to fill the album I am satisfied with my collection

The Hawaii, two I haven't cracked out are the Antetiam and the Spanish trail. I'm currently picking up the modern gold $5 commeratives they too are way down from five years ago.

moxking, excellent information! I'm inspired.

I believe it stands for Commemorative Silver Series, or something like that.

Many of the $5 gold sell for close to melt, the Jackie Robinson uncurculated has been going for around $800 when it listed for over $3,000 a few years back.

Very delayed reply ... but I do offer the following FWIW ...

Pricing for all of our collectibles should of course be a variable to manage ... but the primary driver for my collecting pursuit is love of the coins and my personal interest to pursue them.

Similar to PG ... I have completed an entire classic silver commemorative type set ... two actually ... my MS set is all PCGS MS/CAC and my circulated set has gained some traction here at the CCF.

For me ... it's not about current market prices ... but what I choose to pursue with wisdom and knowledge gained through research.

Hope that helps ... and best of wishes with your personal pursuit of the series.

David