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Canada
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Stumbled upon a still shrink-wrapped 2007 baby keepsake tin and silver dollar set I just happened to have purchased when visiting the mint. I've just recently gotten into coins and have been noticing that when completing sets, the 2007 coins tend to cost more. Looking this set up on ebay I find a $400 bid on just the coin and a $2000 buy-it-now. A recent completed sale for the set went for $668. A different 2007 baby set sold for $300+. What gives? What's so special about 2007? |
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Canada
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Very limited mintage.
If you really don't want them my daughter was born in '07 and would be happy to have them :)
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Canada
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The mint sold 3,252 according to the 2007 and 2008 annual reports. I've also seen it listed as other mintage numbers but always somewhere around 3200 sets. Moderately rare and certainly collectible.
2007 produced a number of highly sought-after coins for some reason - crystal snowflakes, dinosaurs, 1/25 gold wolf, long life ML, bird quarters, sugar maple SML etc.
All have done well in the secondary market.
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Yeah its just strange
Dinosaur: first in series so ok, huge premium compared to the rest;
Sugar maple: last in series but still seems to be the significantly more than the others;
Golden forget-me-not: again last in the series but most expensive.
For the baby keepsakes:
2006 - $200 buy-it-now which I suspect is overpriced
2008 - one sold for $45, buy-it-now $100
2007 - sold for $665 and buy-it-now $2000 (!).
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Canada
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Ironically, I forgot about the forget-me-not.
The only 2007 coin I have that seems to be a dud is the Tall ship Brigantine which routinely sells below issue. It was a great year.
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Canada
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Man I wasn't collecting in 2007 but it seems like it was a good year for you guys. :P
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Canada
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There are 3 of the 2007 baby coins, the ABC blocks, the baby rattle and the baby rattle with gold plate. Your's is the ABC blocks isn't it? Seems to be the middle one for rarity and price. Yeah, that $2,000 Buy it now is severely over-priced. So is the $200 Buy it Now for the 2006; I paid $29.67 for one just last month. :-)
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The Shape of Trade in Ancient China was also worth noting.  |
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Canada
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Mintage on the 2007 silver rattle dollar is sub 1500. Even less for the keepsake tin set (included in the 1500) and abc block dollar. Price is driving entirely by the limited mintage, as it neither the first nor last time the RCM minted similar keepsake sets |
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Quote:
Hobbes
Stumbled upon a ... 2007 baby keepsake tin and silver dollar set Quote:
poboxw:
Mintage on the 2007 silver rattle dollar is sub 1500. Even less for the keepsake tin set (included in the 1500) and abc block dollar. I'm going by what the mint stated in their annual reports for 2007 and 2008 so I'm not sure how to reconcile this with your number. Is this an error in the report? Are we talking about different sets/coins? This is from the 2007 report:  Maybe this number includes sales of both 2006 and 2007 sets? Edited by CC-Ottawa
04/04/2012 08:56 am
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Canada
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Yeah maybe combined 2006 and 2007. I have the baby blocks coin. Pretty cool haven't found a relative find like that before. Usually I look up some old coin I got as a kid and find it's worth not much more than melt value.
I would removing the shrink wrap affect the value? Like to see the actual coin lol.
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Canada
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I got 2007 $8 Silver Square Hole & 2007 $8 Silver Long Life together for $80
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Canada
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SilverBug: What a blowout deal! ;)
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Canada
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@ CC-Ottawa
My bad, I was working off my me failing memory with I said sub 1,500, likely thinking the 1534 mintage of the $20 475th anniversay of Jacques Cartier's Arrival coin. What I've got on my spreadsheet is much closer to your numbers.
2006 Silver Dollar - Baby 2006 1 CAD Silver - Sterling 3,863
2007 Silver Dollar - Baby 2007 1 CAD Silver - Sterling 3,207
2007 Silver Dollar - Baby 2007 Gilded 1 CAD Silver - Sterling 1,911
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Canada
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bought a charlton catalogue and found something interesting. during 2007-2009 the mintage of some coins in series dropped a lot. for example, the hologram $150 lunar gold coins, most in series has 3000+ sold, but 2007 pig is around 800, 2009 ox is less than 500!
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I started collection at the end of 2008, so I missed out on some sweet deals, myself. Bet my icon isn't cheap, if one bought it today.
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Posted 03/30/2012 09:25 am
