When buying US Mint proof coins, what is the most common grading?

December 18, 2009 by · 1 Comment
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Say I want to buy a Golden or Silver Eagle, ordered straight from the US Mint's website. What is the likelyhood that the coin will be PR-69 or PR-70 ???

Do I need to buy "First Strike" coins to guarantee this kind of grading? I'd be very disappointed if I spent that much on a collectible, and it turned out to only be PR-65.
Upon a little more research, I found out that NGC listed a census of all the coins they have graded. It appears that a proof coin, graded below PR69 is pretty rare (maybe 1 out of a thousand).

http://www.ngccoin.com/poplookup/

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Coin shop said it would pay me 95% of current gold commodity price for 1986 1 ounce $50 Eagle gold coin, mint.

December 3, 2009 by · 5 Comments
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Is this a good deal for me? Or could I get better elsewhere?

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how do you purchase silver american eagle coins (non-proofs) from the us mint?

November 30, 2009 by · 2 Comments
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