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Are 2013 Silver Eagles that are available currently authentic?
While researching Silver Eagles I have come across some contradictory information on whether 2013 US Silver Eagles have actually been released. I know the mint sold out for a time in January, then resumed sales. I would assume this is of uncirculated or proof-grade coins, not bullion coins. Yet I find 2013 silver eagles on eBay going for a few dollars above spot, which suggests bullion, rather than graded, coins.
I'm going to the coin shop today to look at their eagles. If I find a 2013, is it authentic, is it a copy, is it a counterfeit, or is it an ungraded coin that had been ordered as a proof?
1 Answer
- wg0zLv 78 years ago
IMHO:
Trying to grade or assign extra value to silver eagles is mostly pointless. buy them as bullion, sell them later as bullion. forget about premiums or any so-called numismatic value. It's a sucker's game, because eagles simply are NOT sufficiently rare or special. Not even the ones the mint itself tries to treat as such. An eagle is simply 31.1g Ag.
Ask the shop when or if they have ever PURCHASED an eagle as anything but bullion; in other words, they bought at greater than spot.
