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1999-2009 Silver Proof Sets: Which Are Worth Keeping?

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 Posted 04/24/2011  12:59 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Russ789 to your friends list
Exactly...I want to crack out the silver and sell it for melt. However, I don't want to crack any sets that are worth more together. I was checking out auctions on ebay and it looks like the only sets bringing a premium over melt is the 1999 (no secret) and the 2001 b/c of the Sacagawea. Am I miss anything from the other years?
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 Posted 04/24/2011  01:04 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add rkrj to your friends list
Like Jay said I would keep them all together. They will be worth more in the long run.
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 Posted 04/24/2011  01:10 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Russ789 to your friends list

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Like Jay said I would keep them all together. They will be worth more in the long run.


Doubtful. Take the 2000 set. It has been 11 years already and the only reason it's worth more than I paid for it is because of silver.
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 Posted 04/24/2011  01:36 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add oober to your friends list
The more that get cracked, the more mine become more valuable. Crack them all I say :)
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 Posted 04/24/2011  02:05 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add ayejay1974 to your friends list
You're not missing anything. The 1999 set because the quarters did not have a separate set released, lowering the mintage. The other for the dollar, as you said.
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 Posted 04/24/2011  02:24 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add ayejay1974 to your friends list
Btw, When you plan on selling coins for melt. I would be interested in the Kennedys.
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 Posted 04/24/2011  09:21 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add onejinx to your friends list
I agree with oober......crack 'em out. The lower the amount of them still intact, the better
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 Posted 04/24/2011  09:32 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Morgans Dad to your friends list
I can only wonder what the next few generations are going to collect, pictures of the coins of days gone bye, you should see the people selling ANYTHING silver to the silver melter at the coin shows, I say crack them also, I will have a set worth more too.......Is it any wonder where all the coinage of yesteryear's have gone! I have ALL the proof / mint sets from 1953 to date, ALL silver proof sets for the years they were not, I collect them,It took a very long time to cherrypick every set, I would not melt a coin.......
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 Posted 04/24/2011  11:17 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add muddler to your friends list
I have a complete set of silver proofs since 1992 and I will keep them together and sell other items before I reduce them to silver melt. Also I don't collect clad so they are my only examples of the quarter series.
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 Posted 04/24/2011  1:29 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add rkrj to your friends list
11 years is hardly consider maturing age for coins, now if you told me they were 111 years old and only worth more because of silver than we would agree, but in my opinion silver is going up still.
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 Posted 04/24/2011  3:53 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add ayejay1974 to your friends list
Let's not forget cracking open these modern sets will not do much to the value of sets that are kept together. In the older sets, pack in cellophane, you cannot "undo" cracking sets open, leaving less of them intact. Modern silver proof sets are sealed in no way. You can have the empty lenses and boxes, and put randomly bought coins back in, with no one being able to tell the difference. This is a major fault in the modern sets IMO, these things should be sealed.

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 Posted 04/24/2011  4:02 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Russ789 to your friends list
I am doubtful that the cracking of the silver proof sets will really drive up their price. If it does, it won't be anytime soon. Don't forget, the price is regulated by supply and demand. Today, the demand is really high for these sets yet people aren't paying more than the melt value. And it they are worth a lot more 100 years from now...who cares as I will be long gone from this earth! :)
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 Posted 04/24/2011  4:02 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Morgans Dad to your friends list
You are so right, buyer beware.....Happy Easter to all who celebrate........
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 Posted 04/24/2011  6:35 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add jokingjoker to your friends list
If you plan on cracking them and selling for melt, I would be interested in the dimes, quarters and halves!
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 Posted 04/25/2011  08:14 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add upstate to your friends list
Which are worth keeping?
I say they're all worth keeping.

But if you don't think so crack them and sell them off
individually for highest return.
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