National Collectors Mint

Everything I've read says this company is a scam. If something is .999 clad, that means it's got a paper thin "plating" on it that is basically worthless.

I believe this is their line: "avoid disappointment and future regret."

To which I would add "Run away! Run away!"

I'll admit it, I've fallen for one of their items before, and was very displeased. I found them to be highly misleading and while I got "what I ordered" this is not to say I got what I thought I was ordering. My order was "government-authorized" "legal tender" $5 proof coins depicting all US presidents and what appeared to the be the presidential seal on the reverse...when you hear "legal tender" and "government authorized" coins, with depictions of US presidents and an S mint mark, being sold in the USA, what do you think of?

Proof coins, minted by the US mint in San Francisco? not quite. It ended up being Liberian coinage. As it so happens, the Liberian coat of arms looks very similar to the US presidential seal.

Nowhere in their ads was liberia ever mentioned, nor was there any indication this was not US currency.

And that's how it is with these folks. They'll show you something and conveniently neglect to mention a key point, or reference it in such an obscure way that you'd never catch it.... then when you try to get a refund it's" Well we never said it was US currency" or "we never said the entire thing was made of .999 pure gold."

Seriously, stay away.

I had figured that was what they were. And am smart enough not to fall for the scam.
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Anything that is hyped as a "collector" item, from a comic book to a coin to an automobile ... is not.

National Federal Government United States Treasury Collectors' Mint

Pick any three or four words from the list above, and you've got an impressive sounding name for the business you operate out of your garage.

All that's required to be a collector's item is that some chooses to collect it. I saw where a guy collected his belly button lint, even had some in museums.

Does that mean anyone else will be interested in collecting his belly button lint? Of course not.

A corollary to this is that anything that needs a Certificate of Authenticity prolly never had its authenticity questioned to start with. What you really want is a guarantee of resale value.

The other day someone called several times wanting to know what we'd pay for some stamps they had (they had to keep calling back because they didn't have them where they could answer questions about them).

They always started by explaining they had a COA (a dead giveaway that they prolly have no resale value), the third time, they even read the COA, something about these stamps being recognized as postage by all post offices worldwide, etc. I finally told them we buy stamps, not COAs, what are the stamps?

Blah, blah, blah, special issue .999 gold blah, blah, Ghana.

"Perfect", I said. "If you're ever in Ghana, you can use them to mail stuff, and the post offices in the rest of the world agree to deliver the letter. If you have about a ton of them, we can process the microscopic layer of gold off and get maybe an ounce of gold. As far as collector value, you'd be lucky to get a dime apiece."