Certified ASE

Dont think so they will run with silver price thats my opinion anyway BUT stock up on them what I do is buy all the coins of the world for the year but in my experience ASE is the most beautifull coin ever made, I have a ASE pocket piece and it never leaves my side even in bed!

I agree with you ag. This is more of a curiosity kind of thing and trying to diversify some of my bullion.

Yes, I have to say, after coming full circle on this, do not waste your time buying slabbed bullion coins. If you buy slabs, only get coins that are proof grade. I mean really, what is the purpose of getting a MS70 silver bullion coin and then it develops milk spots. When you go to sell that coin, you will take a beating.

IN any case tho, as silver drops, the prices will drop on these as well, it just will vary from coin to coin on how popular they are. I would imagine as prices drop, buyers will step in, putting in some sort of floor in these.

If you can buy slabbed silver for close to spot it's fine.. but there's absolutely NO way one should be paying much MORE than spot for bullion coins... now ASE's in general are gov't issued... meaning they actually do have a face value.. for ASE's I think it's one dollar... nominal but still something... gov't issued bullion sometimes has a bit more of a premium b/c they are easily recognized and you can sell them quite easily... privately or to an LCS.. with many private mint issued coins there always comes into question where the coin or bar is even legitamate.

I guess slabs can be decent for proofs, although I'd rather have the box and COA, which most slabbed coins don't include. But there's usually a big premium on slabbed proofs, and I prefer to sidestep that pitfall altogether. Actually when I set up my search criteria for coins on ebay, I usually censor anything mentioning "NGC" or "Slab". I have considered slabbing some of my rarer proofs if I think they'll get at least an MS69 grade and I know I'm going to sell them.

Im going to assume that you mean the bullion ASEs and base my response off that.

Its true that the ms69 ones does see swing with silver spot as well though they generally do trade at a premium. The 70s seem to have bottomed out around 50 or so dollars and do have a numismatic aspect that should shield them from small movements.

I would suggest though looking more into numismatic items if the price swings bother you. For example a vf seated liberty isn't going to go down in price because silver dropped a couple bucks.




The milk spotting can actually be seen on all of them now to varying degrees. The mint either changed something or is just rushing them out which is what causes it.

The only real way to have a very good chance of avoiding it entirely is to buy ones from several years ago. If its sat in the slab for several years unchanged it will probably stay that way. If it was just slabbed theres a bit of a risk. But if its happening to every single one someone has it may be something about their environment or something in their home causing them to react in which case they would be better off buying something else. Like if you live in hawaii buying high grade red copper isn't a good idea, its almost assured to turn brown. If its just a handful of them though its more likely its just bad luck for the ones you got