America The Beautiful Series

I think youre talking about the 5oz ones correct?

There is a thread on them where the discussions turns to them in the EL Yunque one.

My personal feeling is I love them, but theyve been very mismanaged by the Mint and the P series will eventually be killed with the miserable sales. I've stopped collecting them because of this and the super high premium on them right now. If the mint where to set a bottom price they will never go below and say that the P series will continue in some form through the set I would start again

The first 5 seem to be the most desirable by far. The others dont seem to be very hard to come by unless youre looking for graded 70 ones. But I'm with you as long as they are managed this way I will be tracking them down on the after market as I see fit

Looks like if you're patient, you can get the P pucks for slightly under the issue price on ebay. Saw one or two go for around 180.

What this series needs is time. The 2010 pucks have a slight premium because they are sold out at the Mint. Once the 2011/2012s are off sale, these will likely see a bump in secondary market prices, 25,000/35,000 isn't really that many coins in the larger scheme of things. Somebody is buying these that aren't on any of the blogs or websites devoted to modern coins. I wouldn't be surprised if the great majority of the puck sales are to third party dealers who are holding them for 10 years or more to make up full sets down the road. Somebody like MCM might have 5,000 or more of each design and can hold them for a long time with their deep pockets. Gotta remember the coins of yesteryear were usually hated by the general public for one reason or another, and are winners today. The modern "junk" of today will be someone's loved coin series in 20, 30, 50 years from now. My point is history ALWAYS repeats itself in numismatics.

You have to be comfortable with collecting what you like and what you can comfortably afford. I am not saying you can't afford a $200 coin, I am saying you can't afford that $200 coin if it drops to $40 eventually (assuming that the bottom falls out of the Ag market and the spot falls to $5.) That's the risk with any tradable commodity, that the market for it may suddenly collapse. I have been buying silver for 20 years now, little bit here and there, I'm not like Ed that can buy 100+ oz. at a time. All the gold that I own I traded cheap Ag when Ag was rising and the ratio was less than 40:1. I hoard silver for not investment purposes, but for the possibility that our fiat money might someday collapse, and I might have use silver to barter for basic survival. It all comes down to that, survival, and that the collapse of the greenback may become a reality within my lifetime.