2012 limited edition silver proof set?!?!?!?

http://www.coinnews.net/2012/11/20/...ilver-proof-set-coins-price-and-release-date/

i haven't seen anyone comment on this yet. what gives? it does not seem that these coins are any different than earlier mint offerings. slick packaging nonetheless. what awful timing for me to, bills out the wazoo and the holidays are here and bam another 150
any musings on this?
thanks
Walter

 

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Less than 3 ounces of silver, quite a mark up in my opine. :rollling:

 

No cent in the set?

 

Yes! Spend the money on some other Xmas presents.

Chris

 

Er these are all exactly the same coins (besides the ASE) you can just get in the 2012 silver proof set. Seeing absolutely no point to this set. Buy a 2012 silver proof set and a 2012 ASE and you get all these coins, plus a proof cent, nickel, Sacajawea, and the 4 presidential dollars.

If it offered coins you couldn't already get in silver (like if they minted the nickel and cent in silver) then you'd have something. But why bother with this? You can get the sum total of all the coins in this set cheaper already.

 

They say that history repeats itself, and you needn't go any further back in time than 2005. The Mint issued the American Legacy Set which included the clad proof set (Sac $, 50c, 10c, 5c, 1c, the 5 State 25c and the John Marshall & USMC Silver $ Proof Commems). The price for this set was $135, so you were paying about $50+ for the fancy packaging. Today, you'd be lucky if you can almost break even on these sets. I know, because I have four of them.

Chris

 

Just another example of the US Mint thinking of ways to take our money. You see the US Mint can do a whole lot to make money with and without the approval of congress it's just a matter of having a great marketing staff. I have learned alot about silver and most of the silver I will collect from this point forward is mainly ASE's and junk silver without calling it junk silver.

 

As it says right below in the comments, you could buy all the seperate peices in their own cases/slabs for $128 AND get the missing nickel and penny to boot. On the other hand this set includes the "W" ASE that they are sold out of so I suppose if you don't mind the extra $12 to get the ASE it might be worth it but i think you could do better buying the 2012 silver mint set ($68) and the ASE in a pcgs MS69 for in the $60 range off ebay with fewer headaches. I guess we know were all the ASE "w"s disapeared to now

 

Didn't the mint (a few years ago) announce that they were getting rid of all the superfluous issues and that they would concentrate more on the major coin issues? And now it's all creeping back to times past again. When will they learn that collectors don't want (need) this extra junk clogging up their collector cabinets? Or are they targeting the unknowing, less knowledgeable public? This set ain't gonna fly......

 

They have been taking lessons from Coin Vault.

Chris

 

Get rid of the oversized presentation cases. Bring down the prices.

We collect the coins not the cases !

 

They should have added a unique item to the set. It would have been a great way to introduce a .999 silver half, quarter or dime. A Denver minted ASE would have also been nice. TC

 

This is why I love this forum. If it weren't for threads like this, I'd be saving $180 for the 2009 Lincoln Chronicles Set instead of $80 at the very most to buy the exact same thing without the fancy packaging.

 

Dat thing still goin' for that crazy stupid money?

 

From what I've seen, yeah. I'm not 100% sure which types of pennies are included in the set, but if I searched for Red Book prices, I could get all d pennies w/ satin finishes and a Lincoln silver proof for $100.

 

If memory serves, that set originally went for $60 straight from the mint,,,,,,,

 

The mint loves me as I am a sucker for these special packaged items.

 

Why do they bother sending us surveys to do asking us what we want, only to turn around and repackage the same old coins? If that ASE had A D mint mark and a reverse proof to boot, then it would be something. Or a limited edition silver mercury, just SOMETHING different. This year has produced so many proof ASE's, it makes my head spin. Sigh. Why hot a P,D,S,W proof ASE 4 coin set?

 

Before you know it, you'll be getting coins from the Mint in packaging that is labeled, "Made in Shanghai".

Chris

 

A lot of collectors do want the OGP when they buy things. Toy collectors don't say, "Buy the toy, not the box." They want both. Not all collectors collect alike, and so sets can't always be valued based strictly on their metal content. Of course, if you must have the packaging, you will have to pay for it.