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I don't think the above list is really accurate. San Francisco has made a proof ASE every year since 2017, the first year of that range was only in the 2 sets, since 2018 as a separate issue (clamshell). I didn't delve into special finishes. The claim about no mint mark in 1986, sorry that want really specified as to bullion, I thought the conversation was about mint marked ASEs, of course bullion has no mint mark |
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I don't think the above list is really accurate. Which list? Mine? I guess that just highlights that different people collect differently. To each their own, but I consider any coin that has the word "proof" in it a proof.  |
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Quote:1986-1992 Proof 2012 Proof (SF Set and Coin & Currency Set) 2012 Reverse Proof (SF Set) 2017 (Congratulations Set and LESPS) 2019 Enhanced Reverse Proof 2019-2020 Proof 2021 Proof Type II 2021 Reverse Proof Type II ( ASE Designer Set) 2022-2024 Proof I thought I saw more missing. I guess for the regular proofs, at least 2018 is missing. You went through 2021 more thoroughly than I expected, and I think my brain missed something in the translation. It gets boggling to add the special finishes. |
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Lots of Heavy Guns Here.  Get the John Mercanti's Hard Cover Book( 4TH Edition ). Version of American Silver Eagles, A Guide to the U S Bullion Program. If the History Matters, A Wonderful Guide, Nice pictorial Too Buy the Coins, Not the Slabs, .....  |
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CelticKnot the only other thing jumping out at me are the Limited Edition sets, those have been San Francisco since 2017 to date, the 2021 set also had a proof type 1 West Point with the proof type 2 San Francisco, but you only got 2 silver quarters that year, Tuskegee Airmen and Washington crossing the Delaware. Other than that anomaly, the Limited Edition set had only used San Francisco silver eagles (since 2017). Since you wanted to list all the sets.
But mainly important to note that San Francisco has produced "normal" proof ASEs every year since 2017.
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10/25/2024 5:18 pm
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Buy the Coins, Not the Slabs, ..... Actually I've found it rather refreshing that no one has brought up labels and slabs at all until now. #128565;#8205;#128171;#128517; |
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Quote:Get the John Mercanti's Hard Cover Book( 4TH Edition ). Version of American Silver Eagles, A Guide to the U S Bullion Program. A year or two ago I got the Whitman's Red Book series "A Guide Book of American Silver Eagles" by Joshua McMorrow-Hernandez. I guess it's ok as far as a guide. Lots of fluff. Missing many sets. I've had a standing offer to people who'd like to reach out to me and I'd send a link to a guide I've put together. It's a work in progress. Many sets people say they've never heard of. I've sent suggestions to Liberty Coin Service and some they've incorporated and most they haven't. Look at how short that list of sets is! Their sets listed mainly exist to include particular coins that were only available in those sets and that's it. Many significant sets left out. Out of "my" Big Three, they list 1. Edited by Gilly
10/25/2024 5:39 pm
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Quote: It will be interesting to see what they come up with for the 40th anniversary of the ASE and/or the semiquincentennial* (250th anniversary) of United States independence. I'll hope they don't do some kind of set that includes a unique silver eagle ( e.g., Enhanced Reverse Proof ) with a gold or platinum Eagle. That would be prohibitively expensive . |
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I'd imagine a bigger fuss will be made over the 250th US anniversary than the 40th of the eagle coin perhaps, but you never know. My dream set I even have a name for. The "Sea to Shining Sea set". One proof from every US Mint facility, West Point, Philadelphia, DENVER, and San Francisco. First time for a Denver ASE. |
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@Gilly, yep I missed the 2018.  Quote:
It gets boggling to add the special finishes.  It really does!  So with the addition of the 2018 and noting more LESPS inclusions, the list becomes: 1986-1992 Proof (Individual) 2012 Proof (San Francisco Set, Coin & Currency Set) 2012 Reverse Proof (San Francisco Set) 2017 (Congratulations Set, LESPS) 2018 Proof (Individual, LESPS) 2019 Enhanced Reverse Proof (Individual, 30k mintage(!)) 2019-2020 Proof (Individual, LESPS) 2021 Proof Type II (Individual, LESPS) 2021 Reverse Proof Type II ( ASE Designer Set) 2022-2024 Proof (Individual, LESPS) |
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That seems more better. The US Mint pushed back the release of the type 2 in 2021, which had the effect of making 2020 the last year for the type 1 San Francisco ASE, while West Point continued making the type 1 in 2021. So I think it's cool to compare the 1986 proof with the 2020 S proof. San Francisco ASEs just always look great, the best of the bunch. The one thing I get confused with when it comes to the later 2010s, is the Congratulations set. 2017 was the only year with the San Francisco ASE in it, after that they went back to the West Point ASE. I keep thinking that that's what they did with the Limited Edition set, but not true. It makes sense because up until 2017, the Limited Edition set had the West Point ASE and all the rest of the coins were San Francisco. Starting in 2017 everything in the set was San Francisco. |
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"The first ASE (1986) were made in San Francisco but had no mint mark." I believe Gilly was correct |
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Quote:"The first ASE (1986) were made in San Francisco but had no mint mark." I believe Gilly was correct We covered that a few posts up. I thought the reply was a bit ambiguous, but he corrected me that he was only referring to bullion. I just got confused over it and thought it should be redressed. |
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Quote:The one thing I get confused with when it comes to the later 2010s, is the Congratulations set. 2017 was the only year with the San Francisco ASE in it, after that they went back to the West Point ASE. I could probably crawl back through the myriad topics here about ASEs from 7 years ago but I KNOW some knowledgeable CCF member was shouting from the mountaintops for ASE collectors to buy the 2017 Congrats Set in order to get the S Proof. I just missed it and the Congrats Sets were sold out before I could get one. I thought I was SOL until later in the year when they announced it would also be included in the LESPS. *phew* I hadn't planned on buying the LESPS that year but I jumped at the chance to get that S Proof when prior to that I thought I would be paying a large after-market markup on a Congrats set. So, I ended up spending $139.95 on the LESPS but it was probably a wash, considering I got a little more silver and some sweet(?) OGP.  My dilemma is do I liberate the S Proof from the 2017 LESPS for my CAPs album? This has kept me up many nights. |
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I see one seller on ebay that had a couple left that he evidently pulled out of the Limited Edition set for about 100, if that would let you get some rest. Or you can buy graded PF69 examples for less than that and bust them out. |
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