Comments on: Annual 2013 America the Beautiful Quarters Silver Proof Sets Released

By: Mercury

Mercury — Mon, 11 Feb 2013 17:49:29 +0000

Thanks for the insight Bob. In the past I’ve had an Ebay seller suggest to me after I wanted to return a Silver Proof set that had a severely scratched coin in it, that if I wanted, he could simply replace the defective coin with another. I thought to myself, if it’s that easy, then perhaps other plastic lense mint sets being sold on the secondary market could have had the coins inside them cherry picked and then replaced with another. You just confirmed they could be. That is definitely something to consider when it comes to making purchases of mint sets from outside their original source. It could explain why some merchants are able to acquire a boatload of MS and PR70 slabs and then end up having for sell what appears to be a caseload of mint sets afterwards. That’s certainly some food for thought.

By: bob

bob — Sun, 10 Feb 2013 19:51:58 +0000

I pop these quarter cases apart to save on storage and it’s really easy to do and insert a different coin. I’m not accusing Cathrine of anything, just that it would be so easy to do I can’t see much value added.

By: Mercury

Mercury — Sun, 27 Jan 2013 19:30:41 +0000

Cathrine McClure January 23, 2013 at 10:00 pm
That would be hard to say… In this situation I would probably say that you were shot changed and the better choice would be to exchange the set. But then again there are probably collectors out there who would favor having 2 of the White Mountain coin in the set over the one that is missing. One thing we do know for sure is that the set is worth at least $27.48 so why not make $30.00 your starting bid price on Ebay with an explanation, along with some photos of the set and lets see what happens. If anything a precedence will then be set for the next time it happens and you might even get a little excitement out of solving this mystery as well.

By: Cathrine McClure

Cathrine McClure — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 04:00:54 +0000

My set included two White Mountain coins and is missing something else. Does this increase or devalue my silver set?