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Niue doing a blind star wars box

RiveraFamilyCollectRiveraFamilyCollect Posts: 642 ✭✭✭✭
edited October 24, 2023 2:06PM in World & Ancient Coins Forum

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  • 4760 coins.
    2 per box, 2830 boxes for sale.
    $700 per box.
    $1,981,000 potential gross.
    $114,000 worth of silver and $8k in gold.
    Thats a healthy profit margin.

    These Niue people are trying to get in on the blind box phenomenon.
    I will be really surprised if these sell at all.

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  • SapyxSapyx Posts: 2,220 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited October 24, 2023 8:36PM

    "Niue" isn't doing it; I seriously doubt that anybody actually in Niue is aware of their existence. New Zealand Mint is doing it. NZM is a private mint, not actually connected to or with the New Zealand government (which does not own a mint, but generally does not use NZM's services). Niue is just the flag-of-convenience that NZM is using to legitimize their "coins".

    @RiveraFamilyCollect said:
    I will be really surprised if these sell at all.

    Apmex claims they've already sold out from the NZM itself, a claim verified by the NZM website (the set was launched on 11 August, so they're not "new news"); the secondary market is the only place to get them.

    Personally, I don't see the appeal of "mystery boxes". If I'm paying that much money for coins, I want to know what I'm getting and the prospect of getting coins I don't actually want or like the look of, is a major turn-off. If I was interested in such things, I'd be prepared to pay someone to open a bunch boxes and sell me the coins/cards I actually want. Gambling doesn't appeal to me at all.

    But hey, maybe that's why I'm a coin collector, and not a trading cards collector.

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  • It was released in August? And they sold out, that's nuts. Was it $700 on release or that's what they are upselling now?
    Their stuff is usually ridiculously expensive anyway.

    This product seems insane to me

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  • SapyxSapyx Posts: 2,220 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I honestly don't know; NZM doesn't keep original issue prices on their website, and Wayback Machine doesn't have it saved.

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