Home› Precious Metals

This is just wrong...

WingsruleWingsrule Posts: 3,010 ✭✭✭✭
in Precious Metals
A quick glance at the one on the right and you think you're getting some quality stuff...

image



Here's the obverse...

image

Comments

  • OPAOPA Posts: 17,119 ✭✭✭✭✭
    The question you need to ask yourself is: who came out first..JM or the World Wide Mint with that design...My suspicion is..JM, but I can't be sure, since I don't know when the minting year was on either one.
    "Bongo drive 1984 Lincoln that looks like old coin dug from ground."
  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,119 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Is it possible that the World Wide Mint contracted with J-M to produce their rounds for them? Most of the PM companies with "mint" in their name don't actually have any minting capability.

    Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
    "Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
    "Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire

  • OPAOPA Posts: 17,119 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Is it possible that the World Wide Mint contracted with J-M to produce their rounds for them? Most of the PM companies with "mint" in their name don't actually have any minting capability. >>



    Yes that's possible.
    "Bongo drive 1984 Lincoln that looks like old coin dug from ground."
  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,119 ✭✭✭✭✭
    The one with the J-M label is more desireable since you know who made it but is there any doubt that they both have 1 oz of .999 silver?

    Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
    "Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
    "Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire

  • OPAOPA Posts: 17,119 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>The one with the J-M label is more desireable since you know who made it but is there any doubt that they both have 1 oz of .999 silver? >>



    No doubt in my mind...I would buy, if I collected rounds, the less expensive one...silver is silver. Both are readily available.
    "Bongo drive 1984 Lincoln that looks like old coin dug from ground."
  • WingsruleWingsrule Posts: 3,010 ✭✭✭✭
    Maybe I'm wrong, but this is just another one of those no-name generic rounds in my book.
  • CaptHenwayCaptHenway Posts: 32,120 ✭✭✭✭✭
    FWIW, I recognize the one on the left as having been around for a long time, at least ten years and possibly much longer. The one on the right is the knock-off.
    TD
    Numismatist. 50 year member ANA. Winner of four ANA Heath Literary Awards; three Wayte and Olga Raymond Literary Awards; Numismatist of the Year Award 2009, and Lifetime Achievement Award 2020. Winner numerous NLG Literary Awards.
Sign In or Register to comment.