Mint Stats as of May 29th
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Those Dolley Uncs look tempting...still priced ~$500+!!! 
Mint Stats: John Quincy Adams Dollar Bags, Rolls Added
By David C. Harper, Numismatic News
May 29, 2008
John Quincy Adams dollar rolls and bags appear this week. To make room, the 2006 Westward Journey nickel series set number of 147,319 has dropped out. Sales have stopped, so take note of the final number for your records.
Compared to the Monroe dollar roll and bag totals, it would seem that the Adams numbers have opened up fairly strongly for the rolls. They already exceed 60 percent of the Monroe totals. Of course, both sets of rolls are still on sale.
May bullion Eagle totals jumped. The one-ounce gold went up by 24,500 coins to hit 29,000. The silver Eagle total nearly doubled to 1,443,500, up by 702,500.
Perhaps just to make it interesting, a small total of 1,000 half-ounce gold coins and 200 half-ounce platinum Eagles appeared.
Buffalo coin sales went up by 2,000 to 5,500.
Next week the Louisa Adams First Spouse initial sales numbers should be making their debut. That should add some zing to an otherwise fairly slow selling area.
New Mexico quarter bags are just about ready to be replaced by the Arizona quarter bags.
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Mint Stats: John Quincy Adams Dollar Bags, Rolls Added
By David C. Harper, Numismatic News
May 29, 2008
John Quincy Adams dollar rolls and bags appear this week. To make room, the 2006 Westward Journey nickel series set number of 147,319 has dropped out. Sales have stopped, so take note of the final number for your records.
Compared to the Monroe dollar roll and bag totals, it would seem that the Adams numbers have opened up fairly strongly for the rolls. They already exceed 60 percent of the Monroe totals. Of course, both sets of rolls are still on sale.
May bullion Eagle totals jumped. The one-ounce gold went up by 24,500 coins to hit 29,000. The silver Eagle total nearly doubled to 1,443,500, up by 702,500.
Perhaps just to make it interesting, a small total of 1,000 half-ounce gold coins and 200 half-ounce platinum Eagles appeared.
Buffalo coin sales went up by 2,000 to 5,500.
Next week the Louisa Adams First Spouse initial sales numbers should be making their debut. That should add some zing to an otherwise fairly slow selling area.
New Mexico quarter bags are just about ready to be replaced by the Arizona quarter bags.
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All the bullion plats have been available through dealers since the first of the year. These are not the burnished die collector editions.
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<< <i>Looks like it could be a good year for the 08-W uncirculated gold eagles.
FLBuff....chime in here!!!!
<< <i>Looks like it could be a good year for the 08-W uncirculated gold eagles.
Remember that there's always a late surge when people realize the numbers. We can always hope, however.
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<< <i>Looks like it could be a good year for the 08-W uncirculated gold eagles.
Remember that there's always a late surge when people realize the numbers. We can always hope, however. >>
But as collectors, do we really pay for "rarer" bullion based coins? It seems there is little mark-up in the bullion based coins based on how "rare" the coin is, its more based on how many people want the coin. Take the 10th anniversary set (would love to have one myself) but its a run of 30,000 coins...That means the 1995-W ASE has a run of 30k. There are several bullion based coins that have near the same run numbers but dont trade for such a steep premium over bullion value. Where is the need for a collector to purchase the 08-W burnished gold coins? Without the need/want/desire....its going to trade just like the burnished W platinums, 06-W 1/4oz platinum has one of the lowest production runs to date, and trades slightly over melt.
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<< <i>Looks like it could be a good year for the 08-W uncirculated gold eagles.
Remember that there's always a late surge when people realize the numbers. We can always hope, however. >>
But as collectors, do we really pay for "rarer" bullion based coins? It seems there is little mark-up in the bullion based coins based on how "rare" the coin is, its more based on how many people want the coin. Take the 10th anniversary set (would love to have one myself) but its a run of 30,000 coins...That means the 1995-W ASE has a run of 30k. There are several bullion based coins that have near the same run numbers but dont trade for such a steep premium over bullion value. Where is the need for a collector to purchase the 08-W burnished gold coins? Without the need/want/desire....its going to trade just like the burnished W platinums, 06-W 1/4oz platinum has one of the lowest production runs to date, and trades slightly over melt. >>
Good points skramer.
A bullion coin graded MS70 by PCGS is the goal for most of these issues.
An MS69 grade is valued barely over melt.
Now FLBuff's beloved First Spouse Gold(as opposed to the AxE's) have numismatic value, and a low mintage could be quite profitable to boot.
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<< <i>Looks like it could be a good year for the 08-W uncirculated gold eagles.
Remember that there's always a late surge when people realize the numbers. We can always hope, however. >>
But as collectors, do we really pay for "rarer" bullion based coins? It seems there is little mark-up in the bullion based coins based on how "rare" the coin is, its more based on how many people want the coin. Take the 10th anniversary set (would love to have one myself) but its a run of 30,000 coins...That means the 1995-W ASE has a run of 30k. There are several bullion based coins that have near the same run numbers but dont trade for such a steep premium over bullion value. Where is the need for a collector to purchase the 08-W burnished gold coins? Without the need/want/desire....its going to trade just like the burnished W platinums, 06-W 1/4oz platinum has one of the lowest production runs to date, and trades slightly over melt. >>
All absolutely true. What's rare for a silver eagle ain't going to be rare for a gold eagle. Many--including myself--however, project down the road twenty years ago and think "This is going to be one sought-after series," in part because of the low mintages. It's the reason I bought the '90 and '91 half-ounce gold eagles back in the early nineties. Now, those coins are the keys to the series. Will these low mintages also play out that way? Really hard to tell, but just the opportunity to build such a low-mintage series is a once-in-a-lifetime chance to me. I mean, I was 30 years old before I ever owned a coin with a mintage less than a MILLION! I figure there's more than a few collectors out there who think like I do.
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<< <i>Looks like it could be a good year for the 08-W uncirculated gold eagles.
Remember that there's always a late surge when people realize the numbers. We can always hope, however. >>
But as collectors, do we really pay for "rarer" bullion based coins? It seems there is little mark-up in the bullion based coins based on how "rare" the coin is, its more based on how many people want the coin. Take the 10th anniversary set (would love to have one myself) but its a run of 30,000 coins...That means the 1995-W ASE has a run of 30k. There are several bullion based coins that have near the same run numbers but dont trade for such a steep premium over bullion value. Where is the need for a collector to purchase the 08-W burnished gold coins? Without the need/want/desire....its going to trade just like the burnished W platinums, 06-W 1/4oz platinum has one of the lowest production runs to date, and trades slightly over melt. >>
Good points skramer.
A bullion coin graded MS70 by PCGS is the goal for most of these issues.
An MS69 grade is valued barely over melt. >>
But, if the mintage on these coins is low enough (under 10k for the $50 and $5, and 5k for the $25 and $10) it will not matter if these coins are graded or not to bring a premium.
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A bullion coin graded MS70 by PCGS is the goal for most of these issues.
An MS69 grade is valued barely over melt. >>
But, if the mintage on these coins is low enough (under 10k for the $50 and $5, and 5k for the $25 and $10) it will not matter if these coins are graded or not to bring a premium. >>
I'll step out on a limb and say that in time, a 69 OR 70 in OGP will be worth more than either one in any kind of plastic holder. Aesthetics and history will eventually triumph over marketing.