Superman Coins

You have to look at completed autions to see the value of a coin. It does not matter what someone is asking for or what the current bid is. So far the highest completed auction is $1135 CDN.

The guy who bought the coins for $999 and reselling for $1299 is taking a big chance. The mimimum price he needs to sell the coin for is $1150, just to break even.

3 coins SOLD OUT at mint

http://www.mint.ca/store/buy/superm...ns-cat740001

For only 2,000 coins, the Superman Gold coin has a worldwide market . Meanwhile, by way of example, the 2,167 coins sold as Bank of Canada hoard 1914 $5 gold coin had primarily a Canadian market. Nearly a year later that coin is still valued at a premium, if you can find one.

It won't take long before all the gold Superman coins are in diehard collector hands. I don't care for cartoons of men in tights but I sure like the coin. Look at the price people pay for the early editions of Superman comic books - many, many thousands. In the last three months there were about 150 ebay sales of Superman items worth over C$750. That is just on ebay - imagine all the private sales and auctions elsewhere. This Superman coin is the official rendition of the first Superman comic book and is a must-have item for at least the hundreds or thousands of Superman collectors.

I'm thinking it will be valued at $1,500 very soon. The demand curve for this coin has considerable price elasticity (Economics 101). Limited supply for a comparatively large market.

I agree now 17th September. But it would have been interesting to read that kind of comments the release day ...

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im gonna go out on a limb here and predict that within 2 years the Superman gold coin will hit 5,000.00! You read it here first! I figure for my 60th post it may as well be something to remember.

I beg to differ about the Superman gold coin hitting $5000.00. It is, after all, a coin, not a comic book. I wouldn't be surprised if a gold clad version of this coin pops up for $49.99 on the shopping channel just in time for X-mas. Not to mention how attractive this coin is to counterfeiters.

I think it'll hit $1500 tops, then drop back to $1000 after the market is flooded with them, and that will be the end of it. Next....

The Queen Mother coin was trending at $400 just a few years ago. It has dropped substantially in price since.... one never knows for sure...

I have to agree with Allspice, I don't see the gold Superman going for $5000. Tops in my opinion is $2000. Hard core comic book collectors who have $5000 to spend are not going to pay that much money for a coin. They are going to spend that money on high grade Golden Age Superman comics.

@ Cassidy77, well, I'm not sure if 2000 gold 14K coins is a low mintage. Perhaps higher prices/value would be more feasible for a .9999 1/2 ounce gold coin with that mintage, or about 500 for only a 14K gold coin.

Frankly, I would liked to have seen this series presented as a subscription, with the unveiling of one coin at a time per month or bi-weekly, with the first release available at the time of, or shortly after the Superman movie was released.

Then, as collectors had the time to build a collection (emotionally & monetary-wise), the big climax would have been the unveiling of a .9999 1/2 ounce gold coin, which of course, all collectors would have jumped on to complete their collection. The mintage could then have been 5000 and still in high demand. Perhaps that would have made this series more exciting.

But all coins were unveiled at once, which gave collectors more choices to make their own sets, whether that be 2 or 3, or all 7 coins, depending on the preference of the average collector and what they could afford.

I'm just bracing myself for a quick rise in price and then a drop, which would be a shame for this amazing and super series! But, of course, anything can happen, so it's anybody's guess...