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RYKRYK Posts: 35,801 ✭✭✭✭✭
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until the Saddle Ridge coins go live?
My Box of 20: https://pcgs.com/setregistry/collectors-showcase/box-20/ryks-gold-box-20/17132
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    MoldnutMoldnut Posts: 3,116 ✭✭✭✭
    Sitting in my season seats at Dodger stadium waiting for the first pitchimage
    Derek

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    TwoSides2aCoinTwoSides2aCoin Posts: 45,090 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Did Mr. Longacre help you write that poll ?

    https://acoinshop.com/ —-> https://ebay.us/m/KxolR5

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    BloodManBloodMan Posts: 1,839 ✭✭✭✭✭
    It looks like they are available earlier than expected--the coin are live on Amazon
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    MGLICKERMGLICKER Posts: 7,995 ✭✭✭
    Wondering whether is time to pop of the AC for the season.
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    sparky64sparky64 Posts: 7,063 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Watching the Yankees vs. Cardinals. Dozed off twice already.

    I think they want these coins to stay on the west coast.

    "If I say something in the woods and my wife isn't there to hear it.....am I still wrong?"

    My Washington Quarter Registry set...in progress

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    stealerstealer Posts: 4,039 ✭✭✭✭
    Coins are up on Amazon here: Linky

    Nothing on their website.
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    GoldbullyGoldbully Posts: 18,508 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Why are the prices so high?????????????
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    NapNap Posts: 1,772 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Why are the prices so high????????????? >>



    Hyped up coins being sold on a retail website. What were you expecting, bargains?
    My medieval coin collection
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    astroratastrorat Posts: 9,221 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Watching Netflix

    Good luck to all of you hoping to pick up one of the coins
    Numismatist Ordinaire
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    GoldbullyGoldbully Posts: 18,508 ✭✭✭✭✭


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    << <i>Why are the prices so high????????????? >>



    Hyped up coins being sold on a retail website. What were you expecting, bargains? >>



    Just because it says Saddle Ridge on the label......who cares?

    An 1882-S Liberty Head $20 is an 1882-S Liberty Head $20.......is this a new First Strike mentality thing?
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    RYKRYK Posts: 35,801 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>It looks like they are available earlier than expected--the coin are live on Amazon >>


    Fools Rush In

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    My Box of 20: https://pcgs.com/setregistry/collectors-showcase/box-20/ryks-gold-box-20/17132
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    magikbillymagikbilly Posts: 6,780 ✭
    "...Months of painstaking work resulted in an incredible transformation of the coins: in some cases, pieces that appeared to be no better than lumps of dirt or rust were transformed into pristine specimens, thereby adding millions of dollars to the value of the coins..."

    I think I might have said "revealing" not "adding"..."transformed"... I might have rewritten the whole sentence. I don't think it is optimal.

    Eric
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    stealerstealer Posts: 4,039 ✭✭✭✭


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    << <i>Why are the prices so high????????????? >>



    Hyped up coins being sold on a retail website. What were you expecting, bargains? >>



    Just because it says Saddle Ridge on the label......who cares?

    An 1882-S Liberty Head $20 is an 1882-S Liberty Head $20.......is this a new First Strike mentality thing? >>


    If you don't want one at that price then......image

    Weren't the shipwrecked $20's sold at a similar premium?
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    rkprkp Posts: 450 ✭✭✭
    Hahaha, funny poll.
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    GoldbullyGoldbully Posts: 18,508 ✭✭✭✭✭


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    << <i>It looks like they are available earlier than expected--the coin are live on Amazon >>


    Fools Rush In

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    Fools Rush In - Oh so Cute Ricky Nelson
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    DIMEMANDIMEMAN Posts: 22,403 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I can't afford big gold things......I have to settle for little silver things.image
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    MGLICKERMGLICKER Posts: 7,995 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Just because it says Saddle Ridge on the label......who cares? >>



    Certainly your local B&M dealer will offer a handsome premium for a Saddle Ridge Coin!!!

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    stevebensteveben Posts: 4,666 ✭✭✭✭✭
    my poll choice wasn't available:

    * complaining to anyone who will listen how screwed up this sale is.
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    BroadstruckBroadstruck Posts: 30,497 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Why are the prices so high????????????? >>



    If your on a budget and really want one... You could pick up one of the details graded since the whole hoard was conserved anyway.
    To Err Is Human.... To Collect Err's Is Just Too Much Darn Tootin Fun!
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    mozinmozin Posts: 8,755 ✭✭✭
    I could not vote, because there was no choice saying I had absolutely no interest in this topic.
    I collect Capped Bust series by variety in PCGS AU/MS grades.
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    leothelyonleothelyon Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Wow........the few I looked at...XF's.....really got chewed up. That's normal, eh?

    To add; Just looked at an AU58..........I'm sorry but that coin is damaged.

    The more qualities observed in a coin, the more desirable that coin becomes!

    My Jefferson Nickel Collection

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    RYKRYK Posts: 35,801 ✭✭✭✭✭
    More time to kill, folks. I just read the following on the Kagin's site:

    We’re sorry to inform you but due to technical difficulties, Kagin’s Saddle Ridge Hoard coins will be postponed from 1-2 hours to be available for sale at 1:00am-2:00am Eastern. Other Saddle Ridge coins are currently available for purchase here on Amazon. We apologize for any inconvenience and look forward to your business. No products found which match your selection.

    Link

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    My Box of 20: https://pcgs.com/setregistry/collectors-showcase/box-20/ryks-gold-box-20/17132
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    BoosibriBoosibri Posts: 12,694 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Just woke up for the morning... Fresh to err. not really care about the Saddle Ridge sale.

    Latin American Collection

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    MsMorrisineMsMorrisine Posts: 39,667 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>More time to kill, folks. I just read the following on the Kagin's site:

    We’re sorry to inform you but due to technical difficulties, Kagin’s Saddle Ridge Hoard coins will be postponed from 1-2 hours to be available for sale at 1:00am-2:00am Eastern. Other Saddle Ridge coins are currently available for purchase here on Amazon. We apologize for any inconvenience and look forward to your business. No products found which match your selection.

    Link

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    If the same coin was at the same price, would you take a saddle ridge holder over a blue fade just to own one?

    Current maintainer of Stone's Master List of Favorite Websites // My BST transactions
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    BaronVonBaughBaronVonBaugh Posts: 1,839 ✭✭✭✭


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    << <i>Why are the prices so high????????????? >>



    Hyped up coins being sold on a retail website. What were you expecting, bargains? >>



    So, Is anybody buying?
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    stealerstealer Posts: 4,039 ✭✭✭✭


    << <i>More time to kill, folks. I just read the following on the Kagin's site:

    We’re sorry to inform you but due to technical difficulties, Kagin’s Saddle Ridge Hoard coins will be postponed from 1-2 hours to be available for sale at 1:00am-2:00am Eastern. Other Saddle Ridge coins are currently available for purchase here on Amazon. We apologize for any inconvenience and look forward to your business. No products found which match your selection.

    Link

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    It's 2AM EST image
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    yosclimberyosclimber Posts: 5,310 ✭✭✭✭✭
    The kickoff auction did take place as planned:


    << <i>Three months after a California couple found a stash of rare, mint-condition 19th-century gold coins buried in their yard, some of the collection of more than 1,400 coins was auctioned off at the Old San Francisco Mint.

    One of them — an 1874 $20 double eagle that is usually worth $4,250 — sold for $15,000, the Associated Press reported. >>


    from
    http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/05/27/gold-coins-california-auction/9634151/
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    BoosibriBoosibri Posts: 12,694 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Few coins are up now on Kagins, four to be exact.

    Latin American Collection

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    BochimanBochiman Posts: 25,790 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Few coins are up now on Kagins, four to be exact. >>



    8 now....

    What's interesting is that no prices are currently listed and it says to call if interested.
    LAME


    Slowly but slowly adding more...11 now.
    It's a website...how difficult is it to make it live and have them all show?

    I've been told I tolerate fools poorly...that may explain things if I have a problem with you. Current ebay items - Nothing at the moment

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    pf70collectorpf70collector Posts: 6,857 ✭✭✭
    The SS. Republic were all hyped. The values fell tremendously on the half dollars. I bought one and soon got out of it before I was buried. If interested in these buy them in a few years from now. These have nowhere to go but down like the S.S. Republic. I am generalizing, since I don' know much about these gold coins.
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    leothelyonleothelyon Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Coins are up on Amazon here: Linky

    Nothing on their website. >>



    Interesting that there were more than one PCGS 95 or 98 showing on the first page when I checked and posted earlier. hmmm

    The more qualities observed in a coin, the more desirable that coin becomes!

    My Jefferson Nickel Collection

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    thisnamztakenthisnamztaken Posts: 4,101 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>I could not vote, because there was no choice saying I had absolutely no interest in this topic. >>



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    BillJonesBillJones Posts: 35,864 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>I could not vote, because there was no choice saying I had absolutely no interest in this topic. >>



    Ditto
    Retired dealer and avid collector of U.S. type coins, 19th century presidential campaign medalets and selected medals. In recent years I have been working on a set of British coins - at least one coin from each king or queen who issued pieces that are collectible. I am also collecting at least one coin for each Roman emperor from Julius Caesar to ... ?
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    LeeBoneLeeBone Posts: 4,861 ✭✭✭✭✭


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    << <i>I could not vote, because there was no choice saying I had absolutely no interest in this topic. >>



    Ditto >>



    Ditto
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    MilkmanDanMilkmanDan Posts: 3,768 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Count me in as someone who really wanted to buy one of these, but ultimately didn't. I loved the story, after growing up in the foothills of the Sierra Nevadas, in "Gold Country", this could have been my parents who found the cans on their property. I was willing to pay a premium, even significant, like double PCGS guide knowing that I might never see all of that money if I decided to sell in the future.

    But when I came down to it, I didn't. The prices just didn't match with what the story and product added up to, for me at least. It felt a bit like greed had entered the process somewhere along the line. I'm out.
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    agentjim007agentjim007 Posts: 6,256 ✭
    Ugly, problem $20's for $2500+. No thanks. Wonder who decided the prices?
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    CharlotteDudeCharlotteDude Posts: 3,301 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Not even remotely interested at those prices...

    'dude
    Got Crust....y gold?
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    291fifth291fifth Posts: 25,206 ✭✭✭✭✭
    High price equals no interest. My days of paying retail are over.
    All glory is fleeting.
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    RYKRYK Posts: 35,801 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Not even remotely interested at those prices...

    'dude >>



    How do you even know what the prices are?

    I love the non-priced fixed price list. image
    My Box of 20: https://pcgs.com/setregistry/collectors-showcase/box-20/ryks-gold-box-20/17132
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    agentjim007agentjim007 Posts: 6,256 ✭
    These are priced for the HSN crowd. Coin shop owners should be pissed. These will eventually come into your shop. The owners will become livid calling you every name in the book because the responsibility will fall on you to educate these people on the rip off they bought.
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    RYKRYK Posts: 35,801 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>These are priced for the HSN crowd. Coin shop owners should be pissed. These will eventually come into your shop. The owners will become livid calling you every name in the book because the responsibility will fall on you to educate these people on the rip off they bought. >>


    I do not agree with this. I believe that they are priced more in line with the similarly labeled SS Central America coins. I do not believe that they warrant the same premium, but obviously others disagree, several hundred so far.
    My Box of 20: https://pcgs.com/setregistry/collectors-showcase/box-20/ryks-gold-box-20/17132
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    agentjim007agentjim007 Posts: 6,256 ✭
    I don't remember seeing problem SS America coins. I'm talking about the problem coins,I saw on Amazon for $2500+. SS America coins were scarce type 1. Those SS America coins would carry a nice premium cracked out and sold raw. These problem coins are not scarce and would most likely be sold near melt raw.
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    jayPemjayPem Posts: 4,097 ✭✭✭✭✭


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    << <i>Not even remotely interested at those prices...

    'dude >>



    How do you even know what the prices are?

    I love the non-priced fixed price list. image >>



    Whoa !
    Those first few code 92 are absolutely scrubbed looking ! Was that done during "conservation" ? I doubt they had wipe marks like that prior to
    being buried 100 years ago...

    Either the job of conserving these wasn't very carefully done or......image
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    rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
    This type of hype is, for me, nothing more than a marketing ploy. Yes, the coins will realize a profit simply because they are marked 'Saddle Ridge'... and that is sad (IMO). I will not buy one, although gold coins are a prime interest area for me. Just because they were dug up in cans is not important, nor should it be. Cheers, RickO
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    MGLICKERMGLICKER Posts: 7,995 ✭✭✭


    << <i>These are priced for the HSN crowd. Coin shop owners should be pissed. These will eventually come into your shop. The owners will become livid calling you every name in the book because the responsibility will fall on you to educate these people on the rip off they bought. >>



    Some get livid, most are just stunned.

    You are correct though.
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    Type2Type2 Posts: 13,985 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Thinking up a new TV show with coins.... image


    Hoard the keys.
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    BroadstruckBroadstruck Posts: 30,497 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Was the Blue & Red $5 Lib listed image
    To Err Is Human.... To Collect Err's Is Just Too Much Darn Tootin Fun!
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    johnny9434johnny9434 Posts: 33,106 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>I could not vote, because there was no choice saying I had absolutely no interest in this topic. >>

    ditto and no problems here with it either
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    ajmanajman Posts: 1,359 ✭✭✭


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    << <i>These are priced for the HSN crowd. Coin shop owners should be pissed. These will eventually come into your shop. The owners will become livid calling you every name in the book because the responsibility will fall on you to educate these people on the rip off they bought. >>


    I do not agree with this. I believe that they are priced more in line with the similarly labeled SS Central America coins. I do not believe that they warrant the same premium, but obviously others disagree, several hundred so far. >>

    I agree with RYK in so much as that the prices for the shipwreck gold coins have kept their premiums in the years since their release. I think that if one does not buy one now at the "entry level" prices, that it will be difficult to find 4 or 5 years later down the road at a discount because no one is going to want to sell at a loss because they paid such a high premium to begin with.
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    MsMorrisineMsMorrisine Posts: 39,667 ✭✭✭✭✭


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    << <i>These are priced for the HSN crowd. Coin shop owners should be pissed. These will eventually come into your shop. The owners will become livid calling you every name in the book because the responsibility will fall on you to educate these people on the rip off they bought. >>


    I do not agree with this. I believe that they are priced more in line with the similarly labeled SS Central America coins. I do not believe that they warrant the same premium, but obviously others disagree, several hundred so far. >>

    I agree with RYK in so much as that the prices for the shipwreck gold coins have kept their premiums in the years since their release. I think that if one does not buy one now at the "entry level" prices, that it will be difficult to find 4 or 5 years later down the road at a discount because no one is going to want to sell at a loss because they paid such a high premium to begin with. >>





    Quite possible

    And the few that must be sold get the premium because of supply-demand?


    Maybe

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