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Milkspots and MS Silver Eagles

JimDepotJimDepot Posts: 960 ✭✭✭
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How much value is lost due to milkspots. An MS69 2006W 20th Ann Eagle sells for about $80 on Ebay, if the same coin starts to show milkspots does the price drop? Or are milkspots just accepted for the MS Eagles.
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  • KipKip Posts: 852
    I do not think its "If"...its whenimage
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  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
    "I do not think its "If"...its when "

    I have MANY ASE's that have NOT milkspotted... Cheers, RickO
  • CoinHuskerCoinHusker Posts: 5,034 ✭✭✭


    << <i>I do not think its "If"...its whenimage >>




    image I lost 40% of my ms69 registry set to milk spots. It's Russian roulette with those things. IMHO image


    And to see if they are just "Accepted", try and sell one.
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  • TommyBTommyB Posts: 676
    nice game today, husker! image
  • CoinHuskerCoinHusker Posts: 5,034 ✭✭✭


    << <i>nice game today, husker! image >>




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  • KipKip Posts: 852


    << <i>"I do not think its "If"...its when "

    I have MANY ASE's that have NOT milkspotted... Cheers, RickO >>



    I do sincerely hope that your MS ase 's do not spot.
    Whats your secret?image
    Kip

    PS...glad ya got Russ image
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  • INXSINXS Posts: 1,202 ✭
    I sold off my ASE set three years ago after hearing of the spots mine didnt have any but I thought if I could get rid of them all the better. I kept my raw ones in a Dansco they are still blast white. It's crap shoot, I thought PCGS was investigating this issue it seems to happen mainly with the slabbed coins.
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  • JimDepotJimDepot Posts: 960 ✭✭✭


    << <i>I sold off my ASE set three years ago after hearing of the spots mine didnt have any but I thought if I could get rid of them all the better. I kept my raw ones in a Dansco they are still blast white. It's crap shoot, I thought PCGS was investigating this issue it seems to happen mainly with the slabbed coins. >>



    So are they worth the spot price?
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  • GATGAT Posts: 3,146 ✭
    I suggest you guys read this thread and follow what you read. Then give your ASEs the treatment and put them away for awhile in inert flips. After a few years of not spotting PCGS and NGC might change their grading standards.
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  • BochimanBochiman Posts: 25,789 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I would say it devalues them. As to how much, each person is different.
    I sold off our MS69 PCGS set because I didn't want to have them get milkspots and lose the value. So, I made a couple of bucks and sold them.
    The raw ones we have....in the albums....maybe 1 has a small milkspot. The rest are still good to go (2 albums).
    The other raw ones....no problems yet.

    Ricko and I live in the same general area so maybe a moist/humid area is good against spotting? image

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  • HonoluluDudeHonoluluDude Posts: 2,167 ✭


    << <i>
    Ricko and I live in the same general area so maybe a moist/humid area is good against spotting? image >>



    Nope, I live in a very humid climate. Found several Silver Eagle slabs with milk spots on them today.
  • 19Lyds19Lyds Posts: 26,497 ✭✭✭✭
    I use E-Z-Est coin cleaner followed by water, then 99% isopropyl alcohol.

    The water section is not a dip but a thorough rinse under running water. All three sides.

    And yes, the milk spotting seriously devalues a coin to the point of silver bullion. After all, would you buy bread that had mold on it?
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  • BochimanBochiman Posts: 25,789 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>

    << <i>
    Ricko and I live in the same general area so maybe a moist/humid area is good against spotting? image >>



    Nope, I live in a very humid climate. Found several Silver Eagle slabs with milk spots on them today. >>



    Yeah, but you're too warm there.....we aren't image

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  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I do not know if there is a secret - I just keep mine in a safe (with all the other stuff - guns, gear etc.) and I periodically check them. Two weeks ago, not one of them had spots. Hard to believe I could be just lucky, maybe as Bochi says, the locale has something to do with it.. I do have several bags of dessicant in the safe, so moisture is controlled.. I do not have the answer, but am happy to have the coins. Cheers, RickO
  • 19Lyds19Lyds Posts: 26,497 ✭✭✭✭
    As a side note, I've had milk spotting develop on non slabbed SAE's so the slab isn't necessarily the catalyst with this problem.

    Hopefully, the US Mint has been paying attention and the 2006-W's wont have this problem.

    Wouldn't it be nice?
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  • GrivGriv Posts: 2,804 ✭
    Can someone explain why milk spots are rarely found on the proof coins which is made from the same metal composition as the UNC?
  • KCCKCC Posts: 129


    << <i>Can someone explain why milk spots are rarely found on the proof coins which is made from the same metal composition as the UNC? >>


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    Great question...any ideas?
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  • BochimanBochiman Posts: 25,789 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>As a side note, I've had milk spotting develop on non slabbed SAE's so the slab isn't necessarily the catalyst with this problem.

    Hopefully, the US Mint has been paying attention and the 2006-W's wont have this problem.

    Wouldn't it be nice? >>



    Nope...not happening. As I've mentioned before, I had one come back from PCGS (sent in with 5 sets, unopened so I didn't see it prior to it going in) with a milkspot already on it. Was graded a 68 (and rightfully so)

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  • ILikeMercsILikeMercs Posts: 1,392 ✭
    I have an ICG MS-69 set...........not a spot on any of them and I think they'd all cross.
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  • garsmithgarsmith Posts: 5,894 ✭✭
    <<How much value is lost due to milkspots. An MS69 2006W 20th Ann Eagle sells for about $80 on Ebay, if the same coin starts to show milkspots does the price drop? Or are milkspots just accepted for the MS Eagles.>>

    Depends on how many bidiots are looking at ASE's that day!

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