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Should The Mint Start Producing Silver Mint Sets

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 Posted 11/17/2011  4:59 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Foxwoods Man to your friends list
I think he means half, quarters, dime in one Mint set...like a silver proof set

I think the silver proof set fills that need.....
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 Posted 11/17/2011  5:06 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add jbuck to your friends list
Interesting idea. Love it, hate it.

Personally, I do not see it happening.

A problem for some collectors is the necessity of updating the future dated album pages to include the "silver uncirculated" hole. However, there are plenty of people that collect the sets as sets.

This will be an interesting discussion.

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 Posted 11/17/2011  5:37 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add cc99999 to your friends list
they already do this with commemoratives. I think the claddies might complain that it means they have to buy one more coin to complete a set- but a relatively low run in silver would hearken back to the good old days.
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 Posted 11/17/2011  11:54 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add brakeman to your friends list
I would personally like to see it happen but...

it's hard to keep up with so many sets now as it is.

probably have to cut back on something else to be able
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 Posted 11/18/2011  12:00 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add JSH to your friends list
I don't know about a uncirculated silver set, but I would like to see a silver set that is all silver. I collect the silver proof sets but have very little interest in the clad coins included along with the silver coins.
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 Posted 11/18/2011  12:32 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add eaglefoot to your friends list

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Should the Mint Start Producing Silver Mint Sets

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I don't know about a uncirculated silver set, but I would like to see a silver set that is all silver

Actually, upon reading this..... I DO find that notion interesting.
When I bust open my Silver Proof Sets to put in my Dansco's....there they are ! .... Those Lincoln's, Nickels, Native Dollars, and Presidential dollars JUST STARING ME IN THE FACE ! And they're saying.... "Hey there ! I know you like Silver, but we're NOT Silver". "We're actually THE EXACT SAME COINS YOU FIND IN YOUR REGULAR PROOF SETS" ! ......
So, maybe it would be pretty cool to see these typically "non-silver" coins ACTUALLY be silver ?

Very interesting......but probably not ever likely....
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 Posted 11/18/2011  12:59 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add amida17 to your friends list
I dunno a silver cent or silver "nickel"? Feels like a bad marketing decision to me. Something I would expect from the Morgan Mint but not from the U.S. Mint. IMHO
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 Posted 11/18/2011  01:22 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add JSH to your friends list
I would be perfectly happy if they just left out the non-silver coins.
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 Posted 11/18/2011  10:28 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add ljenkins990 to your friends list
Personally, I'd rather spend my limited coin budget on collecting older coins rather than keeping up with even more new coins every year. We have silver proof coins already, that's enough.
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 Posted 11/18/2011  11:22 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add CaptainFwiffo to your friends list
Please no, there's already too many sets. That's why the satin finish mint sets didn't last. People still wanted regular circulation strikes, so it just left them with too many things to collect. I don't want cents, nickels or dollars struck in silver either. There are already plenty of silver products out there. The only reason it's a good idea for the dimes, quarters and halves is because that was the historical composition. Likewise, I'd like the cents in proof sets to be struck from bronze instead a plated zinc.

I'd rather see them pare the various sets down a bit - get rid of clad proof sets. That way you've got silver proof sets, and clad mint sets and that's it. Or maybe if that's too far, make a combined proof set that's basically the silver proof set with the clad half dollar, dime and quarters added on so that you're not buying two sets and duplicating the cent, nickel and dollars.
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When I bust open my Silver Proof Sets to put in my Dansco's....there they are ! .... Those Lincoln's, Nickels, Native Dollars, and Presidential dollars JUST STARING ME IN THE FACE ! And they're saying.... "Hey there ! I know you like Silver, but we're NOT Silver". "We're actually THE EXACT SAME COINS YOU FIND IN YOUR REGULAR PROOF SETS" ! ..
What I really want to see is a "combined" proof set, to eliminate the duplication caused by buying both a silver and clad set.

A close option is that the silver quarters are available separately, but then there are those pesky dimes and half dollars to worry about.
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 Posted 11/19/2011  03:19 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Rewster to your friends list


On that note, what does everyone do with their extra penny, nickel, and dollars?
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 Posted 11/19/2011  06:38 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add eaglefoot to your friends list

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On that note, what does everyone do with their extra penny, nickel, and dollars?


A good bit of my "dupes" are just laying in storage.
Possible future albums ?
A mess for my daughter to deal with when she's much older ?

I dunno......it's an issue that I really don't "deal" with at all......I just continue to accumulate them year after year ! .....
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