Comments on: US Mint Suspends Numismatic American Silver Eagles and ATB 5 Oz Coins

By: Brian

Brian — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 21:02:35 +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: Lopital

Lopital — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 16:34:18 +0000

Silver ATB 5oz’ers from the mint are back at $229.

By: Lopital

Lopital — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 16:49:39 +0000

I wonder if the Mint’s silver repricing policy is to wait until prices go up again…

By: Don

Don — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 19:07:08 +0000

I had decided to skip buying any Silver Eagles this year due to the price but maybe I’ll be able to get one or two after all.

By: Barney

Barney — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 18:45:08 +0000

Just got the end of summer catalog in the mail, and the PS4 proof silver eagle is listed at 59.95. Seems they already knew they were going to cut the price several weeks or even months ago.

By: Anita

Anita — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 03:13:29 +0000

Oh well…if you have it, hold it…if you are able to buy, buy it…because prices are not likely to keep on these lower levels for so long…

By: Rich

Rich — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 23:52:16 +0000

Wow that’s interesting…these guys never lose, no matter if the price is dropping or not. Now that is a great time for customer to buy, they don’t wanna sell. It is the same here in NZ. If you want to order something, the items that you do can, you have to wait up to 3 months to put your hands on the metal.

By: george glazener

george glazener — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 12:38:27 +0000

It would also be nice if the US MINT would allow me to cancel MY order from a week ago so I can turn around and RE-ORDER at the new lower prices. But that “CANCEL ORDER” button seems to have mysteriously disappeared.

But with silver rising again this morning, I bet they’ll wait it out and leave their prices as is.

By: James

James — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 11:51:10 +0000

I am glad I waited on the SE’s. I was anticipating this would happen. Now if I buy a hundred of them, I could save some money and apply it to grading fees. Now if the grader’s would just drop they’re prices a bit.