It never ceases to amaze me what I can find at my local coin shop. People are just giving up on Precious Metals and dumping real Money (Gold and Silver) for shit fiat paper. It also never ceases to amaze me that I go into said local coin shop with a plan (yesterday was to just pick up a few 10oz bars and get out) and I end up with something other than what I plan to get. But I can't help but feel like I robbed the joint.
I just happen to live close to the Canadian border, so locally there is a lot of Canadian Silver floating around the coin shops here; but I have never seen this individually sealed mint packaging before from the Canadian mint and I thought I would share.
Most of the 50 coins I bought are from the late 80's and early 90's, sealed in their original mint packaging, never touched!!! There were also few stragglers that were just cool. Someone didn't want to give them a good home anymore so I thought I would adopt them for...$1.50 over spot!
All in all...not a bad Saturday's haul!!! 50 more oz!!! Headed to deep, deep storage, I hope my kids put them to good use sometime!
Canadian Coins Ehh? I'll take a few! :-)
Someday you will...
What a score man! Keep it up.
Cool! ‘88 was the first year of the SML and they used to be shipped in 10packs of sealed mylar. Definitely mint condition bro — great grab!
I couldn't remember if it was 1986 or 1988...sweet! about 40 of the coins are in the sealed mylar with the RCM stamp on them. I'm happy to have picked them up. The perferation on them seems to have broken down so they split into single packs but they are cool and for sure mint nonetheless.
When i first started collecting i went for every year... i think it’s ‘97 that is the key to this series with only + or minus 100,000 coins — it’s all on wiki...
Decent collection of old coins, keep it up man !!
@prvn77 thank you for the encouragement!
You have an excellent collection of silver coins
@vispasian It was a good purchase for sure!
That is an incredible score. In my opinion Canada make some of the prettiest silver coins.
@bowentroyer I'm still kinda giddy over it. It was the equivalent of my Steem $ for the month.
That is an epic haul
@gdwcoins I'm not sure of epic...that will be a little later in the year I hope...but it was a great day :-)
Good finds! I’ve never seen the gold plated maple leaves. Was that added after minting?
I'm pretty sure it was a RCM special
Cool!
Very cool Matt, the gilded leaf maples are possibly a quick flip coin? I'm pretty sure they're normally over $50.00.
lol...I only have 2 now so I'm pretty sure I can't part with them...but it would be cool if they are worth more!
I like the old maples. Nice come up at 1.50 over 👍
Yeah...the markups around here are really low right now. My LCS is choking on Silver right now.
It’s buying season!
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