I won the Ryder lottery TWICE - damn the MegaMillions
jmlanzaf
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The Mega Millions was only $1 billion. I won the David Ryder lottery twice!
I bought 10 of the WW II silver medals a month ago. I was just getting around to selling them and when I opened the boxes to check, I discovered that TWO of the ten had signed COA's
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Congrats! I didn't even know he signed them.
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Actually, neither did I. It doesn't mention it on the Mint website.
In fact, I had sold one of the ten yesterday and I didn't look that carefully at the COA. I open the box to check the coin and only note that the COA is there. It was just happenstance that when I went to ship another one today I noticed the signature. For all I know, I had THREE. LOL
Not saying that it has always been there, but it is there now.
"These products will include a limited quantity of hand signed Certificates of Authenticity (COA) by the Director of the Mint."
Link: https://catalog.usmint.gov/end-of-world-war-ii-75th-anniversary-silver-medal-20XH.html?cgid=2020-product-schedule
Hmm...I guess maybe I got these confused with the ASEs and thought it was on that one and not this one. Maybe I should have checked them all more carefully before I shipped them.
What is the premium on a signed COA version? I’m not a buyer, just curious.
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I hope PCGS is slabbing these!
Understandable oversight. With all the different releases in NOV-2020, it got confusing, at least for me.
On a positive note, assuming you purchased from the Mint, you did not pay anything extra for the signed COA. As such, you are out, at most, the premium on one signed COA.
https://www.pcgs.com/coa
Nice find... and great that PCGS will slab the COA. Makes a nice presentation. Cheers, RickO
Last one on ebay sold for $400
Lol. Im not really worried about it. There's about a 1% chance of getting one. I bought 25 of these total and got 2 signatures, so I beat the odds.
For what it's worth, I sold them both to one guy for $275 each. Took an hour. Probably could have done better, but seems fair to me.
nice, @jmlanzaf - thanks for sharing pics of em - good to see some of these surface
Congrats
Better than a billion dollars.............imagine the trouble you would get into
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Congrats.
Glad to see the mint mixed then in for proper random distribution.
how are people getting multiple ASE when it says limit 1 per household. I keep seeing comments like "I bought 8 of them"
Looks like it has to be sealed from the mint to get the COA encapsulated from pcgs and if it is signed it is an extra 25.00 fee
Jim
This is not the ASE, it is the medal.
If you have 8 accounts or 8 households, you can get 8. Well, could. I think they are pretty much tapped out.
I think I would still prefer the mega millions.
shhh....I'm trying to cheer myself up.
Congrats @jmlanzaf. Nothing like Christmas in February!
Congratulations, I knew some were signed, I didn't know they were numbered as well.
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