Any News On 25th Anniversary ASE Set?

My comment is based on "big customers" who pay the TPG big bucks for fast turn around times and large volume like HSN and QVC. I have always listened to my gut. And when you see one source getting "more than their fair share" of 70 grade sets it tells me some other mechanism is at play. The ratio of PF69 and PF70 sets coming out of the batch of big retailers doesn't seem to be in line with what I am hearing and reading from people on the forum. I would think that if something such as replacing coins that are available outside this set so that their big customers got more ( and more profitable) PF70 sets, they would do it. Money talks in corporate America, we would be naive to think that a TPG wouldn't take care of a big customer by replacing lesser condition coins with "perfect" ones, especially if it can be done "behind the scenes" and no one be the wiser. TPGs are by nature "human" at the core. Coins are sent by people, received by people, graded by people, and paid by people. When people are allowed to do things "behind closed doors", corruption and desception always follow. I say we use TPGs like the big buyers do. We, here at CCF, should work as a collective. Send in our coins as a block, expect special treatment and do our dealings with them "behind closed doors". Until we can get behind that door we will always be one step behind corporate America.

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Absolutely correct....and...the "unique" coins are probably culls from cherry picking the sets...best ones went off for grading. That's why these are being sold rather than graded...

$200 seems like just the right price for the packaging and the three non-unique coins. The proof goes for $59 from the mint, the uncirculated is $51, and the mint sells the bullion to APs in million dollar blocks for $37 ($2 over spot, it would probably be $45 from the mint with packaging and a COA.) and a good web price in singles is $38. $59+$51+$38=$148, leaving $52 for the fancy display case, $45 if we treat the bullion coin as a $45 mint offering. This is about what we paid for these items from the mint as part of the set so those are going very close to cost. Proof and uncirculated coins are not bullion, they are numismatic items. If we figure the $300 we paid was $59 each for two proofs, $51 each for two uncircs, $40 for the bullion and $40 for the case, the 3+case cost was $190.

The answer to "Why would people spend the $600-$800 just to get the unique coins when you could get the full set for less?" is they aren't. What people are doing is buying one or the other of the unique coins for about half what the whole set costs. If you add it all up it looks odd but individuals are not buying the pieces to assemble a set. When you part out a car, you are not expecting one person to give you more for the pieces than they would for the whole car. You are expecting a bunch of people to pay more for the pieces than one person would pay for the whole car.

Wow....Philly reverses alone selling for $400+. San Fran burnished going for 300+. Makes me want to part out a couple sets instead of selling as a set. That would easily get you 900+ for the set

http://www.ebay.com/itm/2011-P-Amer...refresh=true
http://www.ebay.com/itm/2011-25th-A...em4ab0abc3f5
http://www.ebay.com/itm/2011-P-Reve...refresh=true

It seems logical that the more sets are ripped apart for grading would eventually make unopened sets in original OGP more valuable in the long run....go ahead big companies, slab away, you'll drive up my boxed values!

I know this may have been answered before, but I can't find it.
If one opens their 1 set from the mint he/she
can still send 2 of the Eagles to be
graded and get the 25th Anniversary Label
correct or not?

Wow....can't even comment on that paranoia