Thanks for everyone's response, the karma, and especially your great detail keydate.
To be totally honest I don't consider myself an investor when it comes to gold, I just love gold, it's one of my flaws considering the methods the human race uses and energy that goes into harvesting it.
However,
Just a few things about myself and gold in general, regardless of its origin.
I just like how it looks and feels, most importantly I look at it as more of a monetary placeholder rather than something that will grow exponentially. Kind of like a rock, you know it will be a rock tomorrow and the next day. However If it fell to 600 USD an OZ out of the blue then sure the jokes on me, but I would just increase my purchasing of it.
I'm not against the concept of the collection of numismatic rare coins and currency. A long time ago I collected certain kinds of paper currency and silver bullion, but I just grew tired of it.
Nothing is nicer to me than a nice poured gold bullion bar, button, or coin. I do see some older pandas pop up in eBay and apmex from time to time, with low mintages, for a relatively decent price. However I am a perfectionist, and it's just not relaxing to me to hunt for perfect coins, in fact it actually tears at me.
For example I have been collecting sebenza knives before, I'm not sure if you're familiar but they can come with different inlays, steels, " birth " dates and so on, and I am so picky it's just not relaxing anymore.
What relaxes me about gold is I don't care if there's a tiny chip in it ( well part of me does ) but it doesn't impact its metal weight, I don't have to worry over cosmetics, storage, or marks and scuffs. Another flaw of mine.
I realize I could just purchase ms 70 pandas, or have them graded etc, but I've even heard of coins developing spotting after grading and sealing, I contacted PCGS way back when I was interested in the numismatic side of things, and they did say they could not assure me of anything due to spotting. I don't remember the specifics, but it was enough to drive me crazy, I could foresee myself now just looking over my collection with a jewelry magnifier and getting annoyed over every little scuff, mark, or blemish I would believe could impact resell value.
Gold is gold to me, it can be scuffed up or have an imperfection and as long as the weight is right I'm good.
I wish I got into pandas sooner, I literally started the year they switched ( so my first coin has no identification of purity or weight on it ) and I just continued ever since. I realize they are poor investments which is why I only buy one for a " collection " ungraded, just sealed in mint packaging.
I guess your suggestion makes the most sense, plop on eBay for a reasonable price.
Edit: the only point really to my question was would it go up in value on the secondary market anytime soon, you answered that. I believe apmex values my 2015 at around 200 - 230 ? However I never looked at any actual sales of the 2015 1/10. I thought I didn't have the 2016, but it was the 2017 I actually didn't have. I just enjoy the designs of them.