ATB Five Ounce Silver Coins

Silver was about the same price 10 years ago, yet the mint issued pucks went from $150 to $380..lol

Apologies for dredging this topic up but I feel like it's a decent revisit, particularly with jbuck's most recent comment:




That and with current silver spot, and that it's been just over 5 years since the last Proof puck was issued (Tuskegee), it's a good time.

Speaking of stacking, I never thought of this collection of Proof ATB pucks a stack by any means. I stack other silver but the US Mint premiums on these didn't makes sense for stacking.

However, given current silver prices, has anyone besides me started to consider their collection of Proof 3-inch ATB pucks a stack? Not gonna lie, when Ag was $100+, it was tempting.

Given the fun I had collecting them over the years and contributing to this topic, that would be a tough transition for me. But hey, the memories (or at least my spreadsheet) would still would be there, and that physical silver could be converted into a lot of useful things in the here and now.

Just thinking out loud I suppose. Has anyone else liquidated their P-Pucks? Or thought about it, at least?

Thanks for sharing, @Victor_Ze. Sorry to hear about your job (back then) and hope you have since been able to get back into collecting.

I wish I had started buying these 'back-in-the-day' but now it is probably a bit too late to start.

Wouldn't surprise me either.

That then begs the question, does that potentially increase numismatic value towards silver spot as they get more scarce? Pretty sure that question has been posed elsewhere.

I'm also wondering whether the bullion versions have any collectible value above spot the way the uncirculated ones supposedly do. And even for the uncirculated ones, has the price of silver gotten so high that the silver value outweighs the collectible value?

I have a complete set of the pucks that I keep in a nice cabinet specifically built to hold them. Most are the bullion versions, but one year (2011) I bought the uncirculated pucks instead for reasons I can no longer remember. If I ever decided to sell the set, would I be better off selling the uncirculated ones separately for a higher value and then the rest as pure bullion, or would anybody pay extra to get a whole set (even if 5 were uncirculated instead of bullion like the rest)? I'm guessing the former but, as I said, I have no idea if the uncirculated ones from 2011 have any extra value above spot price these days.