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ASE vs ATB

freechancefreechance Posts: 380 ✭✭
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IF they carry the same premium to spot per ounce which would you buy and why
Thanks

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  • tneigtneig Posts: 1,505 ✭✭✭
    Oh sure, would love to obtain more of them in that instance.
    Right now, only if I get them for a base price at a pawn shop, etc.
    COA
  • WeissWeiss Posts: 9,941 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Eagles. More widely known, much more widely traded unit.

    Eagles are 1 ounce and have a $1 face value. ATBs are 5 ounces and have a...twenty-five cent face value image

    ATBs are a silly mint novelty. My prediction: They'll be wholesaled at melt and melted en mass as they go the way of the SBA.

    So that means in 50 years they'll probably be the hot collectible of the year. But I'll be dead by then.
    We are like children who look at print and see a serpent in the last letter but one, and a sword in the last.
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  • OPAOPA Posts: 17,119 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Eagles. More widely known, much more widely traded unit.

    Eagles are 1 ounce and have a $1 face value. ATBs are 5 ounces and have a...twenty-five cent face value image

    ATBs are a silly mint novelty. My prediction: They'll be wholesaled at face or melted en mass as they go the way of the SBA.

    So that means in 50 years they'll probably be the hot collectible of the year. But I'll be dead by then. >>



    I'm waiting for the Mint's colorized version. All they have to do is take a look at the Perth Mint', ahem, coins image
    "Bongo drive 1984 Lincoln that looks like old coin dug from ground."
  • DrBusterDrBuster Posts: 5,378 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I have rolls of ASEs, I want a roll of the ATBs and will get one after the blown xmas funds reload.

    ASEs would be preference I guess for divisibility in lieu of 5oz/time, but a small stack of ATBs is impressive despite that stupid face value BS.
  • derrybderryb Posts: 36,788 ✭✭✭✭✭
    ASEs.

    ATBs are round bars from a reputable source.

    "Interest rates, the price of money, are the most important market. And, perversely, they’re the market that’s most manipulated by the Fed." - Doug Casey

  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,111 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>They'll be wholesaled at melt and melted en mass as they go the way of the SBA. >>



    There's no comparison to the SBA's and don't hold your breath for them to sell at melt.

    Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
    "Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
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  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,111 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>ASEs.

    ATBs are round bars from a reputable source. >>



    No. They are congressionally authorized legal tender US Mint struck coins just like the ASE's. You may not like them but calling them "round bars" makes you sound ignorant.

    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

  • carew4mecarew4me Posts: 3,470 ✭✭✭✭
    Both = Victory!

    Silver is on sale. stack em both.


    ASE if I could only choose one.

    Loves me some shiny!
  • derrybderryb Posts: 36,788 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>

    << <i>ASEs.

    ATBs are round bars from a reputable source. >>



    No. They are congressionally authorized legal tender US Mint struck coins just like the ASE's. You may not like them but calling them "round bars" makes you sound ignorant. >>


    I like anything that's .999 silver. To me they are round bars from a reputable source. I would pay no more than just a tad more than I would for a .999 5 oz. bar, only because of where they originate.

    "Interest rates, the price of money, are the most important market. And, perversely, they’re the market that’s most manipulated by the Fed." - Doug Casey

  • DrBusterDrBuster Posts: 5,378 ✭✭✭✭✭
    The bullion versions were meant to be same premium as the ASE. that's how I thought, as well as a bunch of other pissed off folks.

    Derry is right though, very small premium for origination...like an ASE.
  • OperationButterOperationButter Posts: 1,672 ✭✭✭
    I like the ATB look. Its different and really gets someone's attention that isnt a coin collector.

    If I was to stack just one, it would be the ASE.

    I collect one ATB from the mint each release, but stack ASE for investment.
    Gold is for savings. Fiat is for transactions.



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  • derrybderryb Posts: 36,788 ✭✭✭✭✭
    don't get me wrong, they are excellent for a silver investment, just not as excellent as the ASE.

    "Interest rates, the price of money, are the most important market. And, perversely, they’re the market that’s most manipulated by the Fed." - Doug Casey

  • carew4mecarew4me Posts: 3,470 ✭✭✭✭
    Lets not forget the "Puck Hysteria".

    The single most active 8 weeks ever for this board!

    Loves me some shiny!
  • pitbosspitboss Posts: 8,643 ✭✭✭
    Yea, a lot of us got sucked in on that. I dumped all of mine as the $*** was hitting the fan.
  • Timbuk3Timbuk3 Posts: 11,658 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Definitely ASE !!! image
    Timbuk3
  • OPAOPA Posts: 17,119 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Yea, a lot of us got sucked in on that. I dumped all of mine as the $*** was hitting the fan. >>



    I have never regretted on holding on to mine, along with every bullion issued one since. Not interested in the so called "collectors" version, to high a premium above melt just like the burnished ASE's.
    "Bongo drive 1984 Lincoln that looks like old coin dug from ground."
  • jmski52jmski52 Posts: 22,820 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I like the smaller ASEs, but like derryb - that doesn't mean I don't like the ATBs, because I do. I just don't know quite what to do with them.
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  • OperationButterOperationButter Posts: 1,672 ✭✭✭


    << <i>I like the smaller ASEs, but like derryb - that doesn't mean I don't like the ATBs, because I do. I just don't know quite what to do with them. >>



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    Gold is for savings. Fiat is for transactions.



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  • carew4mecarew4me Posts: 3,470 ✭✭✭✭


    imageimage

    Loves me some shiny!
  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
    ASE's for me.....Cheers, RickO
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