{"id":128,"date":"2009-06-15T23:35:41","date_gmt":"2009-06-16T06:35:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.capitaltreasures.net\/blog\/?p=128"},"modified":"2009-06-17T11:41:44","modified_gmt":"2009-06-17T18:41:44","slug":"collectible-investments-american-eagle-silver-proof-dollars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.capitaltreasures.net\/blog\/?p=128","title":{"rendered":"Collectible Investments: American Eagle Silver Proof Dollars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"border: 0pt none; margin: 8px;\" title=\"Silver Proof\" src=\"http:\/\/www.usmint.gov\/images\/mint_programs\/american_eagles\/2008_AESilverProofO.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"180\" height=\"180\" \/><\/em>I<em><\/em>nteresting (personal+anecdotal)\u00c2\u00a0 article about the value of an investment in American Eagle Silver Proof Dollars.\u00c2\u00a0 It may or may not work out in the end unless you have a complete set or if you are looking to trade in buillion market values buying in on the lows and hoarding until you can make a standard market profit. Here&#8217;s to all things shiny none-the-less&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><em>Can investing and collecting go hand-in-hand? Yes &#8212; especially if you are collecting coins, stock certificates, bank notes, or other rare items of value. Larry Schutts, an expert in investment-related collectibles, will periodically <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloggingstocks.com\/bloggers\/larry-schutts\">review<\/a> items of interest from his collection and answer your questions here.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Every December, I send each of my brothers a package of Christmas gifts for the family. The boxes contain the usual assortment of presents one sends to sisters-in-law, nephews and nieces, but my brothers always get the new American Eagle Silver Proof dollar. The U.S. Mint has issued the coins every year since 1986 and I have been sending them just that long. It has been some time since the boys have been able to express any surprise about their gifts, but I have always told them to be of good cheer. Those silver dollars, I have said with emotional certainty, are bound to be worth rather more one day. Well, I got to thinking about that promise recently and I thought I would look at the prices folks are getting for the coins nowadays to see whether I was right&#8230; [ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloggingstocks.com\/2009\/06\/15\/collectible-investments-american-eagle-silver-proof-dollars\/\" target=\"_blank\">more <\/a>]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloggingstocks.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">BloggingStocks<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting (personal+anecdotal)\u00c2\u00a0 article about the value of an investment in American Eagle Silver Proof Dollars.\u00c2\u00a0 It may or may not work out in the end unless you have a complete set or if you are looking to trade in buillion market values buying in on the lows and hoarding until you can make a standard [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[31,70,71,105,32],"class_list":["post-128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-bullion","tag-coins","tag-collections","tag-eagle","tag-silver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.capitaltreasures.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.capitaltreasures.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.capitaltreasures.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.capitaltreasures.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.capitaltreasures.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=128"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.capitaltreasures.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":140,"href":"http:\/\/www.capitaltreasures.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128\/revisions\/140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.capitaltreasures.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.capitaltreasures.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.capitaltreasures.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}