Comments on: 2011 American Silver Eagle Anniversary Set Scheduled

By: Brian

Brian — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 18:23:01 +0000

It’s AMAZING to me, that the US Mint is willing to rip-off customers. The Silver Eagle issue that I mentioned on an earlier post for example. They are willing to risk loosing a customer that has bought almost every offering they have made in the last 10-years just to make an extra $10 on ONE coin. Makes NO SENSE to me.
@DR: I about at the same point as you. I am seriously considering cacelling every one of my subscriptions. Another reason (other than the Silver Eagle issue) is that I can usually buy almost all they offer on eBay at a cheaper price if I just don’t get in a hurry to buy. Another reason is POOR quality control by the US Mint. I can’t even begin to tell you how many substandard quality coins I have had to return to the Mint (at MY expense) just to get ANOTHER poor quality coin in return. Why should the customers have to pay return shipping cost on poor quality products? At some point, it becomes cost prohibitive.

By: DR

DR — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 05:59:51 +0000

Brian, I agree. I was also a ‘victim’ of the 5 oz silver coin reduction. However, although I’ve only been collecting a few years, thanks to the upward trend in the precious metals, the only coins I’ve lost money on when trying to sell later is the Braille silver coins. I guess their target market didn’t read the slick marketing materials?

By: Brian

Brian — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 17:36:49 +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 Eagles 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: Joe

Joe — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 14:46:40 +0000

$60.00 a coin or is it the fancy box that costs the extra money? Silver is at $31.17 right now.

By: Springer

Springer — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 23:30:44 +0000

The price is 299.95 per US Mint press release 10-20-11
http://www.usmint.gov/pressroom/?action=press_release&id=1296

By: J pay

J pay — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 00:16:52 +0000

now its off product index not listed

By: jeff

jeff — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 10:53:26 +0000

The mint has them listed for $229. A reasonable price in my opinion. Hopefully they keep it there.

By: J pay

J pay — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 23:32:14 +0000

said at first limit 1 per now 5 it will be a secondary sellers buy out should limit to only 2 my thoughts and only be able to get the s mint mark and reverse proof in that set only or it will DEADEN THE SET

By: joe

joe — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 18:57:48 +0000

i wish the mint would end the ase’s series and start something new. i can’t afford to collect them anymore. but i will try to purchase the 25th anniversary set to keep my collection complete.

By: Stuart Wheeler

Stuart Wheeler — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 13:43:29 +0000

For what it’s worth, I’m going to assume that the mint will charge at least $300 for the 5 coin set. And with the massive popularity of the silver eagles with the numismatic public at large, with a limited mintage of only 100,000 sets….I’m assuming that they will all be sold out within 12 hours after release or perhaps even before sundown Thursday evening on the 27th. I will state that I’ve ordered many times before from the U.S. Mint and never have failed to receive my order including the 2006 Anniv. set; the 2009 Ultra High Relief and all the 2009 Lincoln products. I should include the 2010-P Hot Springs 5 ounce coin with a mintage of 27,000 coins. The point is, I’ll be surprised if my order gets through this time; the world won’t come to an end if I don’t end up with this 5 coin set. And, that’s the attitude I’ve had from day 1. Good luck to those who will be ordering.