Comments on: 2011 Uncirculated Silver Eagle Sales Debut at $11.18 Million

By: Brian

Brian — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 18:26:02 +0000

The US Mint sent out everybodies subsciption Silver Eagles at the higher price, then made them unavailable for 2 weeks (the return policy from the Mint is 7 days) THEN, they made the Eagle available at the lower cost to those that didn’t have subscriptions. All that time, the price of Silver fluxuated a couple of dollars an ounce. And they refuse to refund the difference of the two prices to those that had subscriptions. Considering this is the FIRST year they started to sell the coins after a 2 year suspension, it appears they did this intentionally to make extra money before the price drop went into affect. They just screwed every subscriber in the US Silver Eagle program. And now they want DOUBLE the price of Silver for the 5 coin set. Are they just TRYING to run off the collectors? What a racquet. What a rip off. I’m tempted to STOP buying coins from the Mint becasue of it. They have made literally thousands of dollars from my purchases over the years and now they want to screw ALL of the subscribers for less than $10 per coin. What has collecting come to?

By: Jim

Jim — Sat, 24 Sep 2011 19:30:57 +0000

The mint prices for these needs to drop. We know it won’t happen. Over priced!

By: RonnieBGood

RonnieBGood — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 01:04:57 +0000

It is nice to know at least one Department of our Goverment is good at generating revenue!

By: jim

jim — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 16:13:48 +0000

Why always use variable units (i.e. dollars) to describe volume? Just like with movie box office numbers, dollars don’t relate to anything. How many coins were sold? How many tickets were sold? Those are the numbers that are meaningful when comparing against previous years’ performances and what should be in your headlines.