Comments on: $299.95 Price for American Silver Eagle 25th Anniversary Set

By: paul brinkman

paul brinkman — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 14:46:38 +0000

11/1/11

Sirs:

Everything to do with the 25th anniversary set — from late announcement — to a dreadfully lacking number of sets and a woefully insufficient number of Mint personal available to not even be available to say, “No, we’re sold out,” was pitifully inept. If the Mint didn’t have the monopoly on OUR own money, it would have gone out of business years ago. Lousy beyond words.

By: Richard

Richard — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 15:54:19 +0000

Good morning,we are all personally responsible for our buying habits.I personally cancelled all of my subscriptions,i don’t want them to know in advance what i’m going to purchase.I look at the product schedule and comming products daily,as well as this site.That works for me.The mint product are in the most part is trash,that can be had for face value.

By: RonnieBGood

RonnieBGood — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 00:20:53 +0000

Collectors,
They do have a larger area for the America the Beautiful works of art work – The 5 oz silver issues. Then again the issue of cost makes it difficult for the casual collector to afford to collect the series. A few years ago the mint reduced the number of coin items available to a more sensible amount. But this year they have again increased the number of items available. I love the idea of the anniversary sets but please, US Mint, do not threaten the overall value of the coins you issue by flooding your own market. Take a look at how many ways you may purchase the America the Beautiful quarter series from the US Mint!!
Have a great day all…

By: Brian

Brian — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 18:21:33 +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: John

John — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 19:38:33 +0000

I wish that the mint made the America the Beautiful series on the back of the Kennedy half dollar. It would have given the mint a larger area for the art and breathed new life into a great coin. I would be able to afford a silver series like that.

By: Richard

Richard — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 16:37:54 +0000

Well ASE collectors we’ve been waiting for this set i’m in for one set to keep my set compete.Having said that i feel somewhat violated,but not suprised by the what seems to me to be a bit pricey,$255. would be more in line with with current ASE mint product line.The alternative is even worse considering the second sellers are really going to hammer you on this one.So step up on HIGH NOON EST on the 27th and pull out your gredit card,make sure your mint acct is current.This is going to be a really cool set.Oh yes if i feel violated its self inflicted.ENJOY