Anyone buying the 2018 Mint Silver Proof set on Tuesday?

Goldbully

I'm considering a purchase.

https://catalog.usmint.gov/silver-proof-set-2018-18RH.html?cgid=product-schedule

Gluggo

I dont think any special coins in this one will this be cheaper in a few months on Ebay? What is the limit? If its unlimited will they flood the market or have a poor sell? Lots of questions. No enhanced penny. No Silver Dollar with a P or S mark.

kiyote

I will. This is the set I bike to crack open for my Dansco album.

Paradisefound

@Goldbully
I am trying to stay within the narrow lane.......Not me. I am still a novice exercising a degree of discipline with my interest
The sets look so nice though.....

scooter25

I get 2....one for my danscos and one to keep. I started doing this in 2013, one year too late it seems

Kudbegud

I subscribe for 1

giantsfan20

What are the CDN prices for 2016 and 17 as my CPG Winter 2018 version stops at 2005'

What up with that not showing up to date? Along with ASE$

Ebay as well

Best to wait it out and get it cheaper?

Morpheus1967

Yep, I get one every year. Have them all the way back to 1992.

Onastone

I sure wish they would do the dime and nickel in silver too.

BillJones

I'll buy one after the fact from my local dealer. When you buy just one, the possibility of getting "a clunker" with spots, scratches and / or fingerprints is more likely. When I was a dealer, I bought a number of them and "built" a good one.

BigA

I have had a sub for a couple for years. I like the silver sets but have no expectations of them increasing in value...more of a collecting thing

Goldbully

@Onastone said:
I sure wish they would do the dime and nickel in silver too.

The dime is silver. A nickle is supposed to be a nickle.

jesbroken

I don't care for the coins at all. I bought mint/proof sets for years from the mint and never really got very many in truly nice condition, coins or holder. So I quit in 2010 and haven't bought any but inhand from sellers. I truly wish someone would start minting the beautiful coins of our past instead of these architectural nightmares. JMO
Jim

Kkathyl

Woke up to a notice about it. Must be on the Auto fill. Prices keep rising. I am looking forward to the reverse proof set coming out later as well.

TheRaven

One of these will be added to my collection at some point this year.

ricko

I stopped buying these.... or any of the sets. Used to get all three yearly. I should pull them out and see if I have any Kennedy DCAM'S....another project to add to the list. Cheers, RickO

rln_14

i subscribe for 1

Onastone

@Goldbully said:

@Onastone said:
I sure wish they would do the dime and nickel in silver too.

The dime is silver. A nickle is supposed to be a nickle.

Oops, I knew that. I meant the cent and the nickel. Wouldn't that be quite a set to have those made out of silver too?

cecropiamoth

@Onastone said:

@Goldbully said:

@Onastone said:
I sure wish they would do the dime and nickel in silver too.

The dime is silver. A nickle is supposed to be a nickle.

Oops, I knew that. I meant the cent and the nickel. Wouldn't that be quite a set to have those made out of silver too?

It would be quite a set for sure, but wouldn't make sense. Made of 90% silver, the 5c and 1c would contain more silver than the 10c.

Jeff

halfhunter

It would be quite a set for sure, but wouldn't make sense. Made of 90% silver, the 5c and 1c would contain more silver than the 10c.

Jeff

The dollar coin would be cool in silver!

BruceS

No, it for a while.

coinpalice

I haven't bought any in a long time. I sold most of mine when silver was over 40 dollars per ounce. more interested in pre 1933 gold

Bochiman

I was, but may not this year.
Was doing 3 initially. Then 2. Now, no reason to do them, so was going to do 1, to keep my collection going yearly.
However, the mint keeps raising prices and I don't feel that value is there any longer. Tired of being treated like a little cash cow by the mint and how they do things.

These won't be rare, so if I change my mind, I can pay a little less, or a little more, at some future point, and add it.

Twobitcollector

No

Onastone

@cecropiamoth said:

Made of 90% silver, the 5c and 1c would contain more silver than the 10c.

That's true. That makes me wonder then, why aren't our coins valued by size, shouldn't their sizes have been from smallest to largest-the cent, nickel, then dime? Not the way it is- dime, cent, nickel.???

Kkathyl

bsshog40

I have a sub for 1 every year.

David1940

I subscribe for one each year also, starting this year -- shipped yesterday. I wanted to put together a collection of silver proof sets back to at least the mid 90s, and was disappointed to see that the 2012s are so expensive. So I want to get them right when they come out now.

I've bought some older sets on Amazon and eBay with reasonable success. The first one I got had some tarnish on the dollar so I returned it and decided to deal only with local coin shops. Gotta be able to see them first... returning one bought on Amazon was free, but it was still a hassle.

jmlanzaf

@Gluggo said:
I dont think any special coins in this one will this be cheaper in a few months on Ebay? What is the limit? If its unlimited will they flood the market or have a poor sell? Lots of questions. No enhanced penny. No Silver Dollar with a P or S mark.

Price won't drop for closer to a year on eBay as the Mint will keep selling them all year. This set will not be in limited supply as there is no limit. It's just a routine annual year set destined to creep down in price until it reaches bullion levels.

jmlanzaf

@Onastone said:

@cecropiamoth said:

Made of 90% silver, the 5c and 1c would contain more silver than the 10c.

That's true. That makes me wonder then, why aren't our coins valued by size, shouldn't their sizes have been from smallest to largest-the cent, nickel, then dime? Not the way it is- dime, cent, nickel.???

They would be...if they were all made of the same material. That's why the half-dime was exactly half the size of the dime. Originally, intrinsic value equaled face value. That forced them to shrink the cents as the price of copper went up, for example. Half cents were half the size of cents.

Our coinage no longer has intrinsic value=face value, first of all. More importantly, cents are made of zinc, nickels are made of nickel, dimes and quarters are a copper-nickel alloy, etc. Even if there value was equal to the metal value contained, they would not necessarily line up by size and face value.

jmlanzaf

@David1940 said:
I subscribe for one each year also, starting this year -- shipped yesterday. I wanted to put together a collection of silver proof sets back to at least the mid 90s, and was disappointed to see that the 2012s are so expensive. So I want to get them right when they come out now.

I've bought some older sets on Amazon and eBay with reasonable success. The first one I got had some tarnish on the dollar so I returned it and decided to deal only with local coin shops. Gotta be able to see them first... returning one bought on Amazon was free, but it was still a hassle.

2012 is a rare exception. These sets will almost always drop in value from the issue date. You are much better off buying them a year or two later on the secondary market, even factoring in the very rare exception of the 2012

Azurescens

@cecropiamoth said:

Made of 90% silver, the 5c and 1c would contain more silver than the 10c.

That's true. That makes me wonder then, why aren't our coins valued by size, shouldn't their sizes have been from smallest to largest-the cent, nickel, then dime? Not the way it is- dime, cent, nickel.???

It never made cents to me.