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First Spouse Series * Anyone here collect the whole series?

SwampboySwampboy Posts: 13,018 ✭✭✭✭✭
I was reminded today of previous mint induced forum madness and mayhem and now I'm wondering if anyone here has made any effort to collect this series.

It would be quite a sight to behold, all that proof gold I'm thinking.

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  • And the UNC gold too!
  • Unfortunately, the cost of amassing a full set of the 1st Spouse coins is beyond my means. image
    I do have BU examples of the "Liberty" coins, which makes a nice sub-set.
    The 1st Spouse coins are going to be, in general, very low mintage issues.
  • KoveKove Posts: 2,038 ✭✭✭✭
    I have all the proof issues through Mary Todd Lincoln. I keep waiting for gold to drop further to add all the 2011 coins. I don't know why I still collect these, force of habit I guess.
  • MsMorrisineMsMorrisine Posts: 33,385 ✭✭✭✭✭
    me in proofs in 69 and 70

    i recently started the unc. and and missing most

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  • MercuryMercury Posts: 1,052 ✭✭✭✭
    I have been collecting the unc. Missing one. Figured the unc. Would be collected by fewer people than the proofs and hey they are a few dollars cheeper.
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  • gyromacgyromac Posts: 213 ✭✭
    yes i have the 40 chicks 20 prf and 20 uncs

    and while i can remember the initial onslaught in 2007 like it was yesterday i will offer this...

    the first 3 spouses went out the USM door at $840 a set Prf+Unc...

    so 4 years into the series you have done quite well on bullion value alone ..add a little premium for the numismatic value..you have done BETTER than quite well

    personally i think this has been the best way to acquire gold bullion in the past 4 years.....and somewhere along the way you will catch the lowest modern in the last 10 years...don't know which chick wins the title....but it has the best odds...

    jmho

    gyros
  • OPAOPA Posts: 17,126 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>yes i have the 40 chicks 20 prf and 20 uncs

    and while i can remember the initial onslaught in 2007 like it was yesterday i will offer this...

    the first 3 spouses went out the USM door at $840 a set Prf+Unc...

    so 4 years into the series you have done quite well on bullion value alone ..add a little premium for the numismatic value..you have done BETTER than quite well

    personally i think this has been the best way to acquire gold bullion in the past 4 years.....and somewhere along the way you will catch the lowest modern in the last 10 years...don't know which chick wins the title....but it has the best odds...

    jmho

    gyros >>



    With all due respect to your math, but had you invested the same amount of money at the same time into just plain gold bullion bars, you would have done just as well or even better...( less premium over spot)
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  • << <i>With all due respect to your math, but had you invested the same amount of money at the same time into just plain gold bullion bars, you would have done just as well or even better...( less premium over spot) >>



    Really would depend on how much someone is willing to overpay for either a first spouse or gold bullion. On eBay, I see folks overpaying for gold bullion, but they may also overpay for first spouses, too. Either way, mute point, as there are plenty other modern mint issues that would apply (and not just the first spouses).
    --aap
  • kiyotekiyote Posts: 5,580 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>I was reminded today of previous mint induced forum madness and mayhem and now I'm wondering if anyone here has made any effort to collect this series.

    It would be quite a sight to behold, all that proof gold I'm thinking. >>



    You're right-- I wish I had started with the UNCs, one of each, PCGS 70 to take the the Santa Clara show. I bet they'd look awesome in a display case.
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  • baddogssbaddogss Posts: 1,289 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I remember the mad rush for the first few issues.
    Also managed to make some cash in the beginning by buying an extra one from the mint, and selling them.

    I'm doing the complete set in proof, PCGS certified, with one from across the street.
    They are getting rather expensive with the rise in gold. The MS coins with the lower mintage seem to be doing better in the after market.

    For a more affordable alternative I'm putting together a self slabbed set of the first spouse bronze medals in a Lighthouse album.
    Along with a set of president & first spouse bronze medals, done the same way.
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  • baddogssbaddogss Posts: 1,289 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Quick pics of the First Spouse medal album I mentioned above ...


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  • ambro51ambro51 Posts: 13,817 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Im still working with my first spouse. Ive seen better looking women out there but this one is fairly well broken in and at this point has stopped bitc;777g about every little thing I do that annoys her.

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