Wondering About The Coins From The Mint

I don't work for them, but I think you'll actually get them cheaper from https://www.moderncoinmart.com than you would from the mint. Especially if you order both of them at the same time.

What are your reasons for wanting them? If you are wanting to put together a collection of them then buy whichever ones turn your fancy. If you are hoping to buy them for an "investment" looking for a long term gain, buy mutual funds. You will almost certainly do better. In the long run almost all US mint products wind up being a poor investment. Even the ones that do go up tend to provide a poor rate of return on investment.

The older "Classic" coins in high grades....slabbed or unslabbed....tend to hold their value better than ANYTHING "Modern" or "Ultra-Modern".
"Coins" are always a poor "future investment" because it's always a rollercoaster ride with precious metals and/or bad economies.....whatever.
But, you can actually "track" the values of "Classic" coins going back as far as you want to, to see whether they've increased, decreased, or stayed the same.

In that sense.....it's a "better" bet, that if it's worth $400.00 now.....40 years from now, there's somewhat of a good chance that it might still be worth the same amount.....or it could have tripled in price.....or worse......it's all a gamble and an "opinion"....

But if you're looking for "insider trading advice" on which coins might be cheap and affordable NOW......that you can sit on.....and then 40 years from now pay some kind of HUGE medical bill with the proceeds....... Condor is right......that would be a "mutual fund".....not any type of coin !

A Buck is a Buck.....but it tends to buy less and less as the decades roll by.
So, that guy that's sitting on a huge mountain of Presidential dollars will always get "face value" for his coins.......but he would have been better served investing in something else more appropriate for that type of endeavor.
That doesn't mean that his "inheritors" wouldn't appreciate a Dansco album full of Proof Presidential dollars though ! ....

So, in a nutshell...... THAT'S the difference between "collecting" and "investing".
Believe me !! ........ EVERYONE would like their collections to grow in value through the years.....but that can't be the main reason to get into collecting.
The beauty, the art, the education, the appreciation, and the love must come FIRST !

Hit enter again to fast, plus I always feel uneasy buying or collecting things when I first start, I just don't have the knowledge and have the fear of being ripped off

By buying them cheaper yet. Most proof sets they made 3 million, there's not 3 million collectors of proof sets. When someone who bought 5 or 100 sets (or his heirs) wants to sell, they either take the market price or keep them.

We used to buy Canadian PL sets for less than face from dealers. They'd lose a dime or so rather than take the time to cut them open. Some US mint sets are about as bad.

There is a bulk purchase program from the mint that can allow a dealer to get the sets for less than issue price but the required size of the purchase is large and the discount is only about 5%. Years ago the mint made the mistake of selling the sets to dealers in large quantities for a significant discount. Silvertowne bought 1.5 million sets and jobbed them out to other dealers. All the coin papers had ads from dealers selling current year proof sets at 25% less than the mint was selling them for (At the time the mint was selling proof sets for $12, the dealers were selling for $9). It severely cut into the Mints sales that year. They stopped the bulk sales for a couple years and when they brought it back the discount was greatly reduced.