Kaiser,

You are probably right about the Mints pricing. I think you’ve stated before ‘throw out a number and see if we’ll pay it, then throw out a bigger number and see if we’ll pay it’…over and over.

I was wondering if you’ve had any movement in your order for the Reverse Proof Designer Set? Mine is still stuck in ‘processing.’ I’m hoping I can have it delivered by next week or at least before Mike ‘The Coin God’ Mezack has it to hawk on HSN!

I too love silver, but my first love if gold! Both these precious metals look amazing as coins, but the gold ones..well they’re just off the chart! As to silvers daily price, I don’t get an acid reflux episode if it moves up or down by a fews pennies (sorry, I meant to say cents!) What I don’t fathom is the premium we are now forced to pay every time we want to add a bit of this precious metal to our stores. Since it was just a couple years ago that one would pay $3.99 over spot for bullion silver coins, my thinking is it’s related to Covid-19 (thank you CCP!) and it’s constraint on the mining for the element. Oh, let’s not forget about the ‘greenies’ and Biden that want all mining here shut down. The premium we pay over spot, currently around $10 is the figure I’m looking at and I’m hoping it doesn’t become the norm! You know how quickly we consumers get accustomed to a new pricing regiment.

With regard to the Mints pricing, I think they just want our money. Did you buy the 2006 W ASE coin from the mint? If you did, you paid $19.95 per coin for them. In 15 years they now cost $67, a difference of $47. That’s a 235% increase in the cost of this particular coin! I believe silver was selling in the $11 to $12 range in 2006, so add $11 to the $19.95. Is the additional $37 per coin absorbed in labor and manufacturing costs? Or maybe the devaluing of the dollar as our national debt morphs to close to $30 Trillion? It’s certainly not pegged to the annual increase of inflation. If this trend continues, at this pace, we’ll be paying $158 a coin in 2036. Assuming.of course, we’re still alive!

Rest in Peace, Yuri