I have two grand children and have ordered two silver proof sets since 1999. This will probably be the last year I do this as the mint is getting carried away with their pricing. Anyway I received the two sets yesterday:
I didn't get one this year. I got both the clad and silver for 2020.. half way for the W nickels @potty dollar 1878 is talking about 2019 was the W reverse proof cent On the last coin pic, the obverses of the quarters looks odd. The Tuskeegee airmen quarter looks matte as opposed to the Delaware.
Yea I use to have subscriptions for 1 silver set, 2 clad sets, 2 Uncirc sets, and the proof and burnished sae's. I canceled all my subs this year. No more mint for me!!
I've bought a silver proof set every year since they were introduced in 1992. Not sure how much longer I'll keep going.
I'm not buying this years Silver proof set unless they reduce the price drastically late in the year or something. maybe they will have a clearance sale next year. lol I'm just not doing it. maybe I'll buy it for melt years down the road on the secondary market if all else fails. I'm likely not buying anything from them this year actually there's things I want, but I'm just about mad enough with the pricing to write them off completely. the morgan and peace dollars are gonna run me $510 just for those, and I'm thinking.... nahhhh.. maybe I just get one or none. Sigh, had my eye on the SAE two coin reverse proof set, but even that, I'm scared what their pricing will be on it. but I figure if I went through with what I want, I'd spend $1000 this year, and I really just can't be doing that. overall they've lost their minds in my opinion, and possibly this customer....
I have 13 grandkids and 21 great grandkids. I have always bought lots of US Mint products for them. Most of the grandkids have a mint set for every year of their life. I quit. Too much junk and too expensive. I quit stamp collecting when I got enough to wallpaper my Den. That was 2002. US Mint Ballast and USPS Wallpaper made me change my hobbies. The mint has forced collectors to refocus. Many will stop getting the expensive products. But there are enough people out there to keep the mint putting out the junk. I am working on ancients and fine tuning my current collections.
Me like shiny things. Niffler Courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures A Niffler, which is good at sniffing out buried treasure. The niffler is an adorable platypus-like animal with a very expensive habit. The black-haired creature loves anything shiny, which means it can wreak havoc if it's in the vicinity of jewels, coins or treasures. Their tummies can serve as seemingly bottomless storage facilities, similar to the pouch Hermione Granger uses with an Undetectable Extension Charm in the original Harry Potter movies.
I have done the same for many years, dating sometime to the early eighties, only three of each. With the ridiculous to say the least one year increase it was literally a last minute decision to buy only one set. Originally I pondered on waiting several years in the hopes of getting it for less than issue as is the case for many sets from the 80's & 90's. But somehow I don't see that happening.
Good Lord, dear fellow, you are to be congratulated. 13 grandkids and 21 great grandkids? You can start your own country..........I'm workin' on two grandsons with little prospect of more in the future. Great grandkids will more likely come way after my demise, so again, my congratulations. You should be proud. That said, I've received my pikers lot of silver sets today. I haven't opened them yet (2) as I'm still disgusted at the exorbanite price I've paid for these. I should really have my head examined, but most of us collectors should probably do so too. Ater all, who the devil pays $150 for a Roosevelt dime in mint state condition? Who the heck pays upwards of four figures for a classic commemorative 50 cent piece? If my kids knew what I was doing they'd probably be pushing for commitment papers, but the wife is amiable............
Nah, I'm just a collector. I like silver, proofs are pretty and I'm old - old enough to buy a bunch of them when they were offered up.
You know, you're right. It's just a hobby. I remember being flabbergasted paying $12 to see the Rolling Stones in 1976. The going price for a concert ticket was $4-$6 at that time. Today, I don't miss the money but I have a great memory. So what's the point? I don't know - $105 bucks is still a lot for a silver proof set, and I won't be around 45 years from now to comment on how cheap it seems then.
I’d like to have the JFK, provided a slabbed version can be had at a reasonable price. I am not hopeful.
Thanks for the complement. I bought my last silver set (2021). I want to close with the current configurations. The new ASE reverse, one of the new Washington Quarters and the 1921 commemoratives if I can get one. But, it won't make any difference, the US Mint and I are getting a divorce. I bought my first proof set from the mint in 1959. I certainly can afford to keep it up but think they are killing the hobby by distorting the real foundation. They are going the way of the Beanie Babies.
