First Ever!! .999 Silver Proof Set from the US Mint!!

1630Boston

First Ever!! .999 Silver Proof Set from the US Mint!!

https://youtu.be/CkMpN2Sr7fU

drei3ree

I'm a sucker, so I'm in! But on the secondary market about a year from now.

ricko

Nice set and good video pictures.... Cheers, RickO

Jzyskowski1

They are dime a dozen so to speak if you can live without the w penny. Stacks and stacks on secondary market and a graded w penny example is also pretty cheap for show and tell. Just a thought 🙀jzyskowski

Hemispherical

They are pretty silver modern coins.

steveben

is the cent zinc or 90% copper?

Zoins

@steveben said:
is the cent zinc or 90% copper?

Not copper coated .999 silver?

topstuf

DEMO IN TEXT....NOT VIDEO !!

RogerB

Viewed under correctly balanced lighting (not fluorescent junk), 0.900 fin silver will have a slight cream or yellow cast due to copper alloy. Fine silver (0.999) should look white much like the highlands on a full moon, or maybe the rays from Tycho.

drei3ree

@steveben said:
is the cent zinc or 90% copper?

Zinc

TwoSides2aCoin

Now if the denominations matched the weight as a descriptor it would be fair.
A silver eagle is .999 and it's denomination ; "One Dollar".
Is the half dollar a half ounce of silver ? Is the quarter a quarter ounce, and the Dime a tenth ounce ? I bet not. Funny weights and measures to go with our banking rules, I'm sure. But hey .... five quarters makes an ounce equal to one silver dollar ( Eagle). By weight ( or close )

TwoSides2aCoin

Aside from the above, I'm still in.

BackroadJunkie

@TwoSides2aCoin said:
Now if the denominations matched the weight as a descriptor it would be fair.
A silver eagle is .999 and it's denomination ; "One Dollar".
Is the half dollar a half ounce of silver ? Is the quarter a quarter ounce, and the Dime a tenth ounce ? I bet not. Funny weights and measures to go with our banking rules, I'm sure. But hey .... five quarters makes an ounce equal to one silver dollar ( Eagle). By weight ( or close )

Wrong dollar. Try a Morgan/Peace dollar.

Morgan/Peace: 25.73g
Franklin half: 12.5g
Silver quarter: 6.25g
mercury dime: 2.5g

So based on that. the dollar has slightly more weight, but is twice that of a half. A quarter is half the weight of a half. A dime is 40% of a quarter.

So it does work out. You just have to use real silver coins to compare, and not the artificial $1/1ozt of the ASE.

291fifth

Yet another "collectors only" offering from the US Mint. Where's the melting pot?

TwoSides2aCoin

So a buck isn't a buck anymore $.
Will commemorative $s , going forward remain at .900 fineness ?

Jzyskowski1

They say 999. We can only hope 🙀jzyskowski