Are Franklin Mint Collectibles Worth Anything?

30 Sept 2025 · 1 min

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In this brief commentary, the speaker explains that Franklin Mint collector plates, once marketed as investment pieces, have dramatically lost resale value and now fetch only about a dollar each. The only items that retain significant worth are those made of precious metals—specifically gold or silver plates and ingots—which hold value based on their metal content rather than collectibility. The speaker concludes that the mass‑produced Franklin Mint items were not sound investments and ends with a request to subscribe for future videos.

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Yeah, the Franklin Mint, like the collector plates, really took a hit. We used to get a lot of money for them, and now, you know, it's like a dollar apiece on a good day for all these collectible things that people thought were an investment. The only exception to the Franklin Mint is sometimes they would make things of gold and silver. And if you got in early on the Franklin Mint silver plates or the silver ingots, like I had one there, there was like every car from the '50s and '60s. It was this big and it was all ingots. You can't sell the thing, but it's $2,000 in gold— in silver, actually. So it's worth money for the metal. That's the only exception when it comes to Franklin Mint. They mass-produced everything and they sold it as an investment and it ended up not being an investment. Please subscribe so you don't miss any future videos.