ATB Five Ounce Silver Coins

Always glad to hear new info, and I think you're close on the grading cost. Those bullion should cost about $175 raw, and NGC has been offering free upgrade for oversize pucks. So with the basic grade cost plus shipping, etc...there ya go, $229. And yet, that's still overpriced ;)

I would add the proviso that MS69PL and MS69DMPL are considered higher by certain buyers, and the prices reflect that.

ETA: in 2012 I bought and sold a Glacier in FS MS69DMPL, and pricing both ways was right around $200. I would definitely not chase that particular piece.

With maybe a few exceptions they are basically just tied to spot with a normal premium attached.




The pucks are especially brutal on the wallet to get graded. Id strongly suggest people buy them already graded and let someone else worry about the grading cost if thats what people want.




You might be looking at the P versions which arent bullion. Provident Metals is selling the ones they have in stock of the bullion for 170 something.

@Bizybackson They are still bullion pucks. It is typical to see most products jump in demand and price once the known quantity of them is limited, and then settle down to market price after the dust settles. (check the 1999 silver mint set - which had for years been sold way over the initial value and is now settling). Granted these may always get above spot values for silver, simply because they are unique, but many of us wouldn't buy them at anything over spot. I personally would rather tie my money up in smaller pieces of silver, and don't see these as value added enough to spend $10 an ounce or more over spot. Even the Provident site listed above is offering near spot to buy them from you, so they can resell them for a couple of dollars an ounce over that price.

I hope more people consider the 5oz pucks as just bullion. Lots of resellers have noticed how hard it is to find the Acadia (25,400 pieces) and Denali (20,000 pieces) and are pricing them accordingly around $225-$250 per RAW coin. This was the same situation for Volcanoes a month ago and gone up to the $300 level, a 'bullion' coin containing $150 worth of silver. Those in the know are quietly buying them up and trying to avoid a steep premium.

Yes, please keep on considering these coins as bullion, please! Keeps the prices low and affordable. Finished my 2nd set of 2012 with very decent DMPL coins, so waiting for the 2013s. Hopefully any day now.

Both Bizybackson and Doug58s, each have their own point; one will come out on top.... we just have to wait and see in a few year.
If the 5oz ATB goes the way that the First Spouse then Doug58s may have some relevant argument (as we see lower and lower # of sales of the First Spouse). However, the main culprit of the decline of sales of the First Spouse series is the COST (gold had been doubled in 5yrs, since 2007, so it cost 2x as much to collect the coin). So, if in 5yrs, silver price double...... OR if silver price goes down to below $20/oz, we will see sales picking up.

However, at this moment, I'm a little more on Bizybackson's side, with the assumption that demand will leveling off and I suspect that silver will not double in 5yrs (even though silver will increase against USD, probably 25% to 50%). Why? Because the market is being controlled by paper silver, not physical silver. I hope I'm wrong and the price will double or more so we all should be able to retain the buying power of some of our asset (those stored in PM).

Time will tell.

NQ2-Acadia officially sold out today. Yesterday's mint sales report put them right around Hawaii @ 14,716. Let see how that affects the premium on the Hawaii coin, and if one rises to 3x issue price?