Proof Silver Kennedy's May Have A Future?

People hate moderns.

Well, more accurately old timers hate moderns and most of the younger people who began collecting between 1965 and 1998 hate moderns. The difference in price is largely caused by this. But things are changing as old timers are retiring and being replaced by young collectors. Millions of younger adults and children who began collecting the "new" quarters (the '99 is a generation old now) don't hate modern at all and a larger percentage are collecting them. This is already stressing supplies of mint set made since 1964 and some proof sets. As more retailers get involved and more collectors who used to find their coins in mint sets find they have to buy singles there will be a massive "filling the supply pipeline". This will stress supplies even further.

Don't invest in any coin but if you are interested in any moderns now is the time to acquire them because most prices are still at rock bottom (you can buy 90% silver proofs at melt) and those on the way up are not coming back down for the foreseeable future.

Age is always a state of mind but I consider coin collectors over 50 to be "old timers". Most are baby boomers. Normally "50" is still pretty young but in coin collecting I think they need to be grouped with the older collectors because we all share so many perspectives.

Some younger collectors are "old timers" as well and especially those who started collecting from the mid-'80's to mid-'90's but there are few enough to stick them in with the younger collectors and not destroy the meaning of the terms.

Well, I'm an "old timer" but I do like many modern coins but dislike clad coins. I like modern silver proof sets, American Silver Eagles and silver and gold modern commemorative coins.

I don't know of anyone selling the 90% silver proofs at melt, unless they were run over by a truck.

I'm with you on that. I haven't been to a good coin show in quite a while, but on ebay at least, I'm amazed at the prices being paid for the raw silver proofs of the last 10 years.

That's true. I guess I need to hit a coin show, that would give me a better idea of the true prices being paid for them.

I will second you on the modern silver proof sets

If you can get the complete proof set, or even the stand alone quarter sets for a real good price, they make great coins for your silver stack, but they have to be as close to melt as possible. The deals are out there.