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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;John Burgess, post: 7804923, member: 105098&quot;]I&#039;ll tell you this, it&#039;s best to go to coin shop and get a good look at what they have and haggle the price on them. A whole lot of modern proof sets are basically bought for the face value of the coins or the melt value of the coins, on Ebay you are going to be paying retail or a bit lower, but not as low as you could go with a dealer that bought them in a lot to get the valuable coins from someone selling a collection, sometimes they have to take the whole thing, and then to sell the weaker items they can do it for a pittance.</p><p><br /></p><p>there&#039;s a lot of proof sets that just don&#039;t make the cut and have toned poorly or beat up due to neglect. I don&#039;t like ebay for the purchase of proof sets because you really don&#039;t know if they are giving an accurate picture of what you are buying, and it&#039;s usually closer to the retail price than a deal. I like to do it in person, really give it the once over, and then make an offer that&#039;s within reason.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you do Ebay you are paying the fees from ebay and the shipping, and this will add to the cost of the sets over a dealer looking to move stale inventory in a coin shop where he&#039;s got a decent sense of caring for his inventory.</p><p>if you are looking to &quot;invest&quot; buy the silver proof sets from 1992 onward but if you are doing this, understand you are basically investing in the silver and a touch of collector value though. The clad proofs are just dogs unless you go way back to before 1955 in which case they aren&#039;t clad, they were silver. you can do the 1964 and earlier proof sets really, that had silver as the norm just understand after 1956 the market isn&#039;t that hot for, the value isn&#039;t really there. but a deal is a deal on silver.....</p><p>A better &quot;investment&quot; as has been said by others, is saving and buying quality early proof sets from 1939-1942, or the cheaper ones from 1950-1955,&nbsp; or even earlier proof strike individual coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>Since 2019 the silver proof set is 99.9 silver for the dime, quarters and half dollar, there was a time not that long ago when the mint raised prices on the 2020 set, where you could get the 2019 set much cheaper than the 2020. The 2021 set is the real dog, no bonus coin, priced the same as the 2020 set, and 3 less quarters.....</p><p><br /></p><p>I think you can find sellers on ebay for the 2019 silver proof set for $70-$80 with the W cent included, which means you should be able to find brick and mortar dealers in that price range maybe cheaper without the ebay fees...&nbsp; the 2020 Silver set on ebay isn&#039;t going to sell for less than $150. same amount of coins, same amount of silver as 2019. The 2019 set is the smart purchase out of the three offerings of 99.9 silver sets so far.</p><p><br /></p><p>So yeah, you really want to be a smart shopper is what I&#039;m getting at no matter what you end up buying, buying and selling anything is a negotiation between two parties.&nbsp; If condition is really important to you, then nothing beats seeing them in hand before purchasing.</p><p>Good luck![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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