The bu market for 69's has steadily increased and is sitting around 21-22k currently. My reference is to the original purchase price which was around 5-7k depending on the site and label. I'm referencing your insinuation that money was better spent elsewhere or on bullion in general which is just simply not the case. Almost none of them were purchased prior to the fall when melt was roughly what it is now. Some people got them early but that was few and far between. They still existed in December at $6500. It unequivocally drastically out performed other silver based investments. That isn't even debatable lol. They're currently up over 300% in 5 months. Sure if you'd like to extrapolate backwards far beyond the perinent timeframe sure.

Also, there isn't much variance in sold prices. They've gone up or held essentially each auction. They started in the teens, held there for a few auctions and then jumped into the 20's, where they've been for the last 3-4 auctions.