One year later!

A year ago April NGC confirmed a major hub variety for the 2008-W Silver Eagle and I have been keeping an eye on them this last year. They created quite a stir for collectors. It ranged from wanting to have the only know variety of the SAE in their collection all the way to other end of the spectrum of "who cares..it's just an over hyped and over priced bullion coin." I am glad I fall into the former! I enjoyed the talk here and on the forum about this SAE. I hope some day to find out the exact number of these beauties that escaped from the Mint.

It was wild watching the price of this coin sky rocket! My family bought me one from Gainesville Coins when we heard the news...couldn't have it till Father's Day in June though...for $300. For the next couple months it went through the roof and was selling in the $1000 range for the MS-70 Early Release. Now for the last few months it has settled down to around the $800 range. But I have seen a few go for a bit less though which might be connected to the bad economy.

This Eagle is the pride and joy of all my coins and I hope everybody enjoys the SAEs as much as I do!

Jeffrey