How doe's everyone feel about breaking proof sets up

For many years I would buy an additional mint and proof set (including silver) to break up and update my cents through dollar sets. Since selling off nickels thru dollar sets, I just buy single proof cents for update the Lincoln set.

I didn't regret doing it at all, and ended up with some great looking sets of coins.

 

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Another newbie point of view . . . I enjoy the silver proof sets! For their beauty of manufacturing and the fact that I am highly skeptical of someone selling me a "silver proof like" coin outside of the OGP. Being new, I am wary. I appreciate the art of the coin and, perhaps over enthusiastically believe that the product from the US Mint in proof is a great example of our coinage.
. . . just my pov

 

I love buying proof set to later get home and crack them open!!:hammer:

I cracked open over 500 proof set last year.

 

Proof set are very cool!

 

Agree, agree! I have a 2000 mint set with the Kennedy clad half dollar and I took a stick pin and poked holes in the cello in a toning experiment I have going. I just took a bunch of semi-useless coins and tokens and they're in a redwood cigar box. I check on it from time to time. I'm hoping to have a really nice even toned 2000 mint set fully toned when all is said and done. :kewl:

 

I would not break up a Proof set. Why? I can't see any good reason to break them up. If I want a proof set, I want a proof SET, not some assorted proof coins.

Breaking up and removing from original packaging are two different things, however. I could see removing them from the original packaging if I thought it was detrimental to the coin's helth. That would be a last resort though, only to be done if absolutely nessicary.

I don't play the grading game so that means nothing to me, I don't store my sets by denomination, I store them by year, so that would also not be a factor.

 

Up until 2004, I only bought one proof and one mint set for my collection. Then I started to complete my book collection and noticed that I would need a proof coin to complete these sets. In addition to that, I found that it was easier, not necessarily cheaper, to buy a unc set and break it apart for my books. So since then, I buy two proof sets and two unc sets....one to keep and the other to break apart. Last year, I decided to start doing this with the silver proof sets. I am slowly going back and trying to buy up cheap silver proof sets to break apart. This is harder than it seems.....because nothing is cheap about this.

 

I will break a mint set but not a proof. I broke a mint set for my Ike collection.

 

Im newer in this hobby, so at this time im mostly collecting moderns, with a few other older sets going as well. I put my coins in P,D,S&S Danscos and I had decided that all coins from 1999 to present will be from US mint uncirculated sets, proof sets and silver proof sets. I decided to start with 1999 because that is the first year of the State Quarter series. Obviously I must crack out of the mint sets. Now I still have some repeaters that im not sure what to do with. I had originally intended on buying 2 sets of proof and silver proofs (one for Dansco and one to keep in proof set), but I cannot financially do that. I have only two more sets left until I am current. 1999 silver proof and the 2001 silver proofs. I will probably get both soon and then I will be anxiously awaiting the 2010 sets to start showing up.

 

In the good old days when Proof and Uncirculated sets were just the normal, every day coins I broke them up all the time for Albums. Now those set are so full of STUFF I don't need, I just would rather buy what I need for my Albums. For example I don't like and don't collect those baby sized dollars and they are in those sets now.

 

I am wanting to send in some stuff to NGC but I am wondering if I can send them still in the proof set to them and have them crack it open and grade them. Will they do that or do I have to crack it open?

 

Do not remove coins from the U.S. Mint cases when submitting to NGC. It will serve as added protection in transit. NGC will remove coins from Mint packaging at no extra charge.

Chris

 

I sold a couple of extra sets on eBay and I will never do that again. I will break them up first and sell each coin individually. I can get as much for the half as I can for a complete set. Go figure ?