Major Screw Up On My 8 Gold Maples

APMEX pays $34 less than their sell price for 1 ounce gold Maple Leaves. Call them, send photo of damage, offer them $300 for a trade of yours with problems for theirs without problems.

@moxking: Why on Earth would you trade in ounce for ounce at a losing rate? That's just obsessive behavior. He's got the same amount of gold, albeit the labor is lost on the pristine state of the aesthetics of the coins. If those were my coins and I didn't have my current skillset, I would save them for the express purpose of making jewellery or custom bars. This mishap is a blessing in disguise, where one would not melt or change the form of pristine coins they are now expendable to reform into something else. One can make a cigarette case, for example, to make something rather useless (a coin with no real market application) into something that has a pragmatic purpose. Like I tell my customers, use your imagination! :)

@T-Bop: Have you tried hiding them in your pantry or freezer? (We're talking bullion, right? Not actual collectors' coins?)

If it were me, I would (after having a good cry and beating myself up for far too long) just hold on to them until the spot price went back up to a level where I would make a mild profit (or at least a smaller loss than if I were to sell them tomorrow). If I needed the money in the meantime, I could sell them at any time. But I could certainly do better than sell them now.

I might consider upgrading if I really wanted something like the originals. But if I could afford it, I'd still hold off the selling for now.

Can we see pics?

I finally took them to a LCS last week. The price of gold was $1185, he gave me around $1100 per coin. Not too good, but they were pretty torn up.

I know one thing, they can keep those .9999 coins. The .999 coins are ten times more durable. I like to look at my bullion and handle it. .999 gold makes more sense to me.

Amazing! Never come across a gold plated drier before.