Would you buy the U.S. 2026 Uncirculated mint set just to get the new 2026 penny?

I should have said $125 for $2.91 face value.

 

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Short answer: no
Long answer: nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo..

 

id buy it knowing id be losing out but geez

 

I'm wondering if the mint is trying to add an additional psychological hook.

We know that the mint set is the only way to get the P & D cents. The subscriptions have been cut off which tends to imply that the mintage may be reduced. This could lead to greater hype and a made rush to get the sets when they go on sale June 30th. The kicker is though that I have seen nary a word about what the mintage of the sets will be.

So push the hype and then quietly make the mintage unlimited. If this is true then you could get maximum sales at the inflated price (Important since the mint set sales figures have been in the tank.) Then if the prices crash in the secondary market what do they care.

 

I have albums for Lincoln cents, Jefferson nickels, *Roosevelt dimes, and *Kennedy half dollars, and unless or until those series end, I feel a need to keep up with what's still being issued. I basically decided rather than hope I can find good examples in circulation, or pay 2nd party sellers for them, that getting an uncirculated set once a year is the most convenient and cost effective way to keep up. Granted this was before the Mint jacked up the price on them, but even still.

The 250th anniversary feels special because I was born the year of the 200th, so I feel a little more motivated for sets from this year than I otherwise would. Why I want an intact uncirculated set (as well as a clad proof set and silver proof set) from this year when I honestly wouldn't otherwise care. So I'm getting 2 this year: one to break open to fill up the albums, one to keep intact. 2027 on I'm only getting 1 a year to break open.

For me this is more about satisfying my OCD with keeping these albums complete than the investment potential (though every time someone breaks a set open it makes the intact sets rarer by one lol).

(*Still putting 2026 dimes and half dollars in those albums even though technically they're not Roosevelt dimes or Kennedy half dollars; the gap would otherwise just look weird lol. Besides, have to put them somewhere.)

 

Well $5.82 face value actually, because the uncirculated set has 2 of each coin, one from Philadelphia, one from Denver.

I don't dispute it's still too expensive; these only cost about $35 last year as I recall.

 

Worthless to me. When something is created to be a collectible it never is after the bubble has burst. You are just left with a zinc cent.