The 2026 Silver Proof Set is a potential winner
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Will the 2026 Silver Proof Sets be winners this year?
It appears that the US Mint will not be issuing the limited edition silver proof set for 2026. They will also not be issuing the individual silver quarter proof sets as well. If this holds then that means all 2026 silver quarters will come out of the 2026 silver proof set itself.
The 2025 silver proof set had a mintage of only 114,279, but for the silver quarters they also struck 26,629 additional individual sets, plus the limited silver sets at 24,911. This means the total mintage for the silver 2025 quarters was 165,819.
For the 2026 mintage it will only become whatever they strike for the silver proof sets themselves unless they later add the individual silver quarter release. This leads to the question of how many will be struck?
They have been declining for the past few years as this shows:
If the mint strikes as many as last year, it will be a likely winner because it is record low mintage for modern silver quarters. It will also have the proof Lincoln cent, and other 250th anniversary coins in silver. The 250th anniversary silver half Dollar and silver dime could become more valuable perhaps.
The mint is currently accepting subscriptions for these sets that are limited to 10. If any details change, the subscriptions can be cancelled prior to shipment.
PS The 2025 silver proof set appears to be selling for over $500 right now on Ebay for ungraded sets. Much of the value may be in the 2025 proof Lincoln cent, however many may want to also have the 2026 proof Lincoln cent, including the silver quarters and silver dime and half dollar.
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The mint web sight is predicting Approx. $150.00 per set ? How many folks are interested ?
That's just a placeholder price at this point imo.
I expect the new price to be double that when the set is released (if spot holds).
There'll be lots of interest, given the 250th designs and all.
If the value of the 2025 silver sets are any indication, quite a few.
Collecting 1970s Topps baseball wax, rack and cello packs, as well as PCGS graded Half Cents, Large Cents, Two Cent pieces and Three Cent Silver pieces.
500,000 plus for a final mintage would not surprise me at all. As for an initial opening price $200 or above is certainly a likely possibility given the current spot and how it's moved in the past 6 months.
If silver spot remains at around $80 per oz, I would suspect the price to be in the $250-$300 range.
For what It's worth..... I ordered a couple ! I'm still a fan of the unc. mint set thou !
I've been a long term subscriber to the Silver Proof Set program; I upped my QTY from 1 to 2. Did the same for the Uncirculated and Proof sets.
FYI: The 2026 Uncirculated Mint Set and the 2026 Proof Mint Set are showing subscriptions as "Not Available."
I usually pick up one or two, maybe an extra couple this year...
The 2026 silver proof set subscriptions are now unavailable.
There is a 100% chance that price will be higher if silver is priced at or more than what it was at the FUN show. I heard a well known dealer tell a customer tell a client where he could sell junk silver for 50 times face. For a silver Proof set, that works out to $92.50. The silver in a modern silver Proof set melts for more than that, and mint’s mark-ups are much higher than melt. The coins in the modern sets are .9999 silver.
A local dealer was in a dither to buy the 2025 sets for $500 because he has a client who will pay $700. It seems that the OP’s reported mintage of just over 114,000 is enough to get at least that speculator going. The dealer was chiding me for having bought only one set. If he only knew how many Proof sets I have which that are underwater, he might understand. I buy as a collector, one a year. I don’t buy the base metal sets any more.
People want the 2025 set because it contains the very last final Lincoln cent.
People will want the 2026 set for the same reason. 😜
NOT at that price !
The mint will keep making the cents for annual sets in the future, right?
Yes.
But not dual dated, if these are.
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Subscriptions have opened back up for these if anyone wants in.
Of course they have. Expect PLENTY of cancellations at $245, with no mintage limit.
Count me in for cancellations.....
Count me in for not subscribing…
The 2025 set also has no mintage limit, and that meant nothing. They only did 115k sets.
Ohhh, there willing to pay. Its outta my paygrade to understand it but just the same 🤪
Sure. But that's only about double melt at current prices and a lot of the coins are one year type. The only real question is whether the mintage comes in under 500,000 or whether it goes full "Bicentennial".
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It's a one year type set. Maybe you can buy them cheaper 2 or 3 years from now, but it really depends on how many non-collectors but them like the Bicentennial sets 50 years ago.
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I can wait
I wouldn't tell you otherwise. But if everyone "waits" and the final mintage only comes in at the normal 300,000 or so, the price may hold. [And I don't say that about 95% of Mint products. ]
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2025 Silver Proof Sets available this morning. Picked up one set before they went dark.
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Oh wow, nice pickup. Do you know how many were available?
No, I just scrolled down looking at the new prices and saw ADD TO BAG and about passed out. I checked out and went back and they were gone. I'd say they were available for 30 seconds or so
Understood, and that might be the speculation on the part of anyone buying at $245. I wish them luck. In any event, at that price, I wouldn't be shocked if they sold less than 115K even if they stand ready, willing able to sell a billion.
The problem I see with buying these sets is that there is no advertised mintage limit. I also think that these may be on sale for multiple years. I haven’t made a decision yet to keep or release my subscriptions.
Right now a subscription is like getting a lotto ticket for free that you can tear up before delivery if the numbers don't match.
PS We will know the numbers just prior to the mint releasing the product. That is when the subscribers should decide what to do.
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The US Mint claims on their website that there are more coins they are going to announce later in the year, and some of those might be included in the sets they are releasing. Anyway these are only lotto tickets for now to see what the mint announces.
But you won't. The published limit is "Unlimited." If they end up not actually making them available, on demand, in unlimited quantities, you won't know that until well after the return period for your subscription.
Do what you want. But don't think "Unlimited" means "115K" just because that's what it turned out to mean last year. It would be as easy to say "115K" for these, if that's what they meant, as it is for them to say "190K" for the uncirculated sets.
Take them at their word. As of now, and as of the release date, they intend to make as many as they can sell at $245 each. Sure, that might change sometime after release, but it's very highly unlikely to change between now and then.
In any event, these are not going to be nearly as popular as they were last year, both due to the price increase and due to the lack of an illusion that they will be the last year a cent is included in the set. OTOH, the one year only semiquincentennial might drive demand, which they will certainly want to meet at $245 per if it manifests.
As a result, no bargains here. Buy them if you like them. Not because you expect a 5x flip. If the mintage turns out to be low, it will be because there is no demand. Not because they are giving you a $700 proof set for $245.
All but one of my subscriptions are paused, some for a couple years now. Never un paused but I assume it should be straight forward. Had 5 business days to pause before release a few months ago. Easy. Product info gets fleshed out 2 or 3 weeks before release.
If silver hits $300 an ounce by end of 2026 then customers are in for more increases...
And if it TANKS Then what ? A DECREASE I think not !
And say Nuffin about the uncirculated mint set's.... The price for these is up almost 400 % Why ?
You won't be able to unpause if the subscriptions are unavailable as many of the better ones already are. You should unpause if you get a chance and then pause if you change your mind later
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AWESOME !!!!
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Do I owe you rent for the headspace?
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NOPE , all is well here...... Thank's for asking !
Ehh. Other than the Congratulations Set, I am quite certain that, at the new prices, everything will be available, both for subscription and at release. While the Mint tests the upper limits of what the market will bear, it is likely a lot of this won't sell out.
Not at launch, and not by the end of the year. No matter how few they make.
Because not only will would-be and actual flippers be discouraged, but those who bought multiples because they thought they had value will only buy one for a collection. And lots of other people will be priced out, because two special pennies and $5 worth of pocket change aren't worth $125 to them when lunch now costs $15.
TBD. Feel free to call me out if anything they just repriced, other than the Congratulations set, either does not become available for subscription at some point prior to release, and/or is difficult to obtain at release. At these prices, there is no "better" anything, other than a proof ASE with a 60K mintage.
Uncirculated sets may not. There are a lot of coins with limits. Even if they end up being available in large numbers, what i said remains true. You can anyways turn it off in the pre-release window but you can't always turn it on. [I'm not sure why you would argue that helpful advice. ]
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The advice is solid. Unless you forget to turn it off and end up with product you didn't want.
My only point is that what was attractive last week is no longer attractive, and what was impossible to subscribe to last week will be easy to subscribe to going forward.
So, yeah, you can always turn it off, if you don't forget. You can also always turn it on. The only subscription you can't get right now that I expect not to open up before release, and to actually be difficult to get at release, is the Congratulations Set.
On a somewhat related note, given how we were going back and forth regarding how "hot" the military privy ASEs were, do you think they would have even sold out at $175? I'm not so sure and, if not, that should really inform what you think about all of this stuff at these prices, considering that tons of people with subscriptions have no idea about the new prices yet.
Proof silver eagles, proof sets, mint sets are all currently unavailable.
$175 was the street price, so it would have been close
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The clad proof set shows available for subscription this morning. Silver proof set and uncirculated are not available.
It's much too early to be claiming the value of the uncirculated sets when they have not announced them officially. They may be including more coins than they did in earlier sets, or just one special coin only available in that set. It could also just be what people expect as well, but until it is announced nobody knows at this point.
Years ago they added a special coin to one of the sets, and it may happen again.
Many people have taken up all the canceled subscriptions because there is no real risk in doing it. We can always cancel on the mint if they put out high mintage products later. I am expecting very low mintages for many products going forward, actually historically low mintages that will reward buyers who only pick those products going forward.
They ARE adding a special coin to the sets -- the pennies, which will not be circulating, and will be unavailable elsewhere. That's it. That's the justification. The 2021 set has nothing special, and it is now $124.50 as well.
Accept it, this is just the new price. Based on the price action in the secondary market for the 2025s, they are banking on people valuing 190K cents not available anywhere else at around $50 each.
And they might, but I am sure not going to give them $50 for something that costs them less than a nickel to make, and has absolutely no intrinsic value at all. As far as I'm concerned, the Lincoln cent series ended in 2025.
They never pulled this crap with half dollars when they stopped making them for circulation, and I for one am just not going to go along with this now. It will be bad enough paying $175 for a coin with maybe $100 worth of silver in it. THAT at least has a potential to be worth something in the future if silver keeps rising, in addition to the numismatic premium people are placing on it now.
Paying $100 for two cents with no intrinsic value, when they are literally making, not 230, but nearly 230K, is a place I am unwilling to go. YMMV, but I feel confident that whoever ends up holding these for the long term at these prices is going to be sorry.
It is too early to say what is in the sets at this point. You can think you know, but it is like claiming to know what the weather will be in three weeks. If it was any other year i would agree, but they may have more coins to add than what everyone thinks is all I am saying. They have hinted on their website there could be more coins. For example, the Trump presidential coin I think will be a circulating coin, and that could or could not also be in the uncirculated set if it happens.
The mint has not released any collector products three weeks into the new year. They are backed up badly and it may not be the high mintage year you expect. Everything keeps getting pushed back.