Elemetal's Egyptian Rounds...Go, No Go?

[Jester]

Good Afternoon All,

I could really use the input of seasoned stackers/collectors/investors re: Elemetal's Egyptian Mythology rounds. These have been calling to me for a while and I've held off because if I was purchasing silver, I wanted it to be government bullion at the cheapest price above spot.  I've started dabbling in collecting/investing and that has me revisiting this series.  I can pick up these 2 oz rounds loose or graded MS70 and slabbed by NGC.  We're looking at a difference in total price of roughly $105 for the two loose and $257 for the two graded.  Both Cleopatra and Anubis were limited to 500 rounds each.  So question time...are these worth picking up at all (from a collectability and investment perspective) and if so, is it worth getting the graded versions?  Thanks in advance for your time and feedback!

[sovereignsteve]

12 minutes ago, Jester said:

Good Afternoon All,

I could really use the input of seasoned stackers/collectors/investors re: Elemetal's Egyptian Mythology rounds. These have been calling to me for a while and I've held off because if I was purchasing silver, I wanted it to be government bullion at the cheapest price above spot.  I've started dabbling in collecting/investing and that has me revisiting this series.  I can pick up these 2 oz rounds loose or graded MS70 and slabbed by NGC.  We're looking at a difference in total price of roughly $105 for the two loose and $257 for the two graded.  Both Cleopatra and Anubis were limited to 500 rounds each.  So question time...are these worth picking up at all (from a collectability and investment perspective) and if so, is it worth getting the graded versions?  Thanks in advance for your time and feedback!

Are you talking about the antiqued version which is the only one to my knowledge limited to 500?

I'm not sure you can buy them raw, I think they've all been slabbed.

[Scuzzle]

I seriously thought about putting a post up on here asking if anyone in the US could get me the MS70 Cleopatra and Anubis from Provident Metals, I can't believe these are still available.  I'm not going to say of they are a great investment or not but I would love some and I personally would pay the asking price.  Not so keen on the antiqued ones which seems to be all thats availible with UK shipping.

[Jester]

14 minutes ago, sovereignsteve said:

Are you talking about the antiqued version which is the only one to my knowledge limited to 500?

I'm not sure you can buy them raw, I think they've all been slabbed.

Good point Steve.  The slabbed versions I found on Provident so those must be antiqued.  The others were found on MCM.  That's great insight re: the mintage...certainly puts a different perspective on the rarity between the two options.

[Scuzzle]

Is it acually a mintage of 500 or just that Provident sent a load in for grading and got 500 MS70 back because their page does say this about the standard coin.

[sovereignsteve]

No it looks like they have minted 500 of each, BU and antiqued, with individualisd serial numbers 1 - 500 on the edge.

They seem to have MS70, MS69 and GEM BU. So the full range.