2018 Congratulations ASE

No it's not. They're proofs.

 

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My post was made in jest.

 

So what is up with the Congratulations sets? I bought a 2013 for my daughter for the Mint price of $50 or whatever when she finished high school and she didn't give a crap, so I stuck it in a drawer. 5 years later I pulled it out (the other day) and saw they were selling for $500?

I told her what it may be worth and she grabbed it and ran to her room. Pretty funny!

So what is going on with them? Just a fad? Should I sell it or hold onto it?

 

I'd sell it if it were me.

 

Last one on ebay sold for $471 ==> https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_fr...lete=1&LH_Sold=1&rt=nc&_trksid=p2045573.m1684

I sold all of my Congrat sets last fall. It was crazy money.

The funny thing is I bought most of mine from the Mint.
but my 2013 I had just bought on 4/18/2017 for $64.05 to complete my Congrats collection. Just a few months later on 9/3 I sold it for $300 +SH, the going rate at that time.

Now the 2013's are selling for a bit more whereas the other years are falling.

So .. if you have the 2013 and your daughter doesn't want it, I'd sell it. Tell her she could have $400 after all expenses, etc.

I think it's a fad. The other years are already falling by a lot. I'm hoping they all go back under $80 each then I'll buy them again for a complete set. I had multiples of each year except the 2013. To me, the buyers essentially paid $$ for cardboard.

 

I think the big hot item coming from the mint this year will be a reverse silver proof set .. TBD? have to keep watch out for that set

 

I think it's because of the 2017 set which had the ASE proof with the "S" mint mark. The master marketers at Coin Vault, etc., are now taking those other Congratulation Sets and having them graded and getting the TPG's to put a special label in the holder. IMO, it's complete marketing.

 

It’s amazing, isn’t it. Hundreds of extra dollars because of a piece of cardboard.

 

I get the Proof ASE with a unique mint mark. But paying extra for a Proof ASE that came in the Congratulations set that is not unique, I don't get.