Question On US Commemoratives.

Would you have a photo to share on this issue since depending upon condition the response may vary?

mdpmedia

Indeed ... would like to help but your question is confusing us.

Please clarify ... photos always work best.

David

I'll take pictures later tonight. But by non-monetary I mean the note that comes with the Double Gold Eagle copies compared to coin sets.

I'll be posting the pictures around 5:30pm Pacific time.

The United States Commemorative Gallery is the name of one of these mass-market coin sellers that buy cheap coins or commission some replicas of coins to sell them to non-coin-collectors for vastly more than they're actually worth. They're currently selling the racketeer nickel set for $62 - the price drops to $49 if you buy them in bulk.

I'm assuming it's not too hard to buy a heavily worn racketeer nickel, plus four heavily worn non-racketeer V nickels, for much less than $62. Then they're throwing in gold plating on the racketeer and a pretty wooden box.

So to answer the OP's question: No, they are not likely to have any value to an actual coin collector, nor retain their value. Somebody trying to resell one of these sets will have a hard time getting their money back within a generation, probably not anytime this century.

I can see where they're selling wheat cents for $19 for a half-pound bag (about 70 coins), but not where they're selling silver dimes. But I doubt they'd sell fakes or replicas without saying somewhere that they're fake or replica - these sorts of coin sellers are generally too slick to resort to outright lying or overtly breaking the law.

If they sold bags of Mercury dimes, they'd be cleaned, worn, common-date and way overpriced - but most likely genuine.