Good Sources For Canadian Maple Leafs?

http://www.gainesvillecoins.com/cat...e-leafs.aspx

They have very good prices

You missed a very good bargain a few weeks ago from APMEX. Very low premium and they were going for around $34. They do this through out the year.

Fast forward a week or two and they are back up over $40 again.

I like this place, when they say they have them they have them and ship them fast in very nice condition.

http://www.silvertowne.com/c-296-canada.aspx

Not a big fan of Gainsville only becasue on various sources they don't get high markets for service or quality.

Took a fast look at AMPEx , they have decent lower premiums on both the ASE and Maples.

Yes, that was a good sale, both for the low premium and for the reasonable silver spot price at the time. I was fortunate enough to be able to buy some Maples during that sale. They are beautiful coins and a nice addition to any silver bullion collection.



Yes, shipping can certainly add to the cost of buying on-line. APMEX is an excellent supplier in that they often have desirable products that other vendors do not. They do charge $20-25 shipping for most of the orders that I have made through them, though, so ordering enough to spread that cost out a bit seems to work best.

Yes, that happens. I have had the same experience with both PMs and with stock buying and selling. Our targets are sometimes just not reached.

Yes, Provident Metals is a good on-line vendor. I have purchased silver bullion items from them a few times and have been satisfied with the results each time.

I have also had good experiences with APMEX. They are not the cheapest vendor but they are one of the best, IMO. Their selection cannot be beat, although their shipping time when paying by easily verifiable personal check could be better.

My 3rd on-line vendor is SilverTowne. I really like their 5-oz silver bars but have not had the best experience with them lately. Don't know if that was a 1-time problem or what but it did dampen my enthusiasm for buying from them.

Maple Leaf silver coins are very nice looking coins. They are a little smaller in diameter than an ASE but they are thicker to make up for it. They have a very solid feel in the hand in addition to their great looks and worldwide recognition as a coin of good value. I was able to get a few tubes of them about a month ago when silver prices were down and APMEX was running a low premium sale on them. It is interesting that they come in plastic tubes of 25 coins each and not the 20 coin plastic tubes in which ASEs come.

There's nothing stopping any of us from buying both Maples and ASEs. I have both in my bullion collection and appreciate the variety that the Maples add to an otherwise all-US coin collection.

Whether the coins are 999 or 9999 doesn't really matter, though, as both Maples and ASEs contain exactly 1 troy ounce of pure silver. I suppose that a very tiny extra weight of 999 is needed to provide the same troy ounce of 9999 but without a very sensitive balance, none of us could tell the weight difference.