Should I Collect Clad Proof Sets?

Thanks everyone!



Maybe not, because the 2008 Clad Set has maintained its premium for several years, yet it's practically double the mintage of the 2012 Clad Set, and the 2008 Silver Set didn't sell out early along with it.
The 2012 Clad Set is the lowest mintage all-Clad Proof Set ever, and the only all-Clad Set (from 1971 to the present) under one million.

The 2012 Silver Set is now higher-priced in local shops than is the 1999 Silver Set...

To sum it up:

The 1999 to 2007 Clad Sets are cheap and unlikely to depreciate much further.

The 2008 Clad Set has maintained a consistent premium in the last several years, unlike the 1999 Silver Set!

The 2009 Clad Set is probably under-rated, because tons of them were broken up for the Copper Proof Cents. This Set has been hovering around issue price since mid-2010.

So the only "gamble" I see here are the 2010 and 2011 Clad Sets.
In their favor, they have the first ATB Quarters, and lower mintages than their predecessors. But they're still relatively high-priced in the secondary market.

Main factor for the 2010-up Clad Proof Sets is what the mintages of the 2013 and 2014 Clad Proof Sets will be. If those two years sell a million each, the 2012 Clad Set should do well.

I think it's a great time to buy proof sets if that is what you want to collect. Silver or Clad. Even though many of the silver proof sets that were at junk silver prices, most sets that had a good premium attached have fallen quite a bit.

I do agree with others also that I don't foresee them (Clad) as being an investment of any kind in the foreseeable future.

I enjoy collecting silver and clad proof sets. I like the fact that everything is one and together. I don't collect them for investment purposes but rather because I enjoy it.

I've been checking the 1999-2008 Clad Set runs on the Bay (I have the 2009 Clad Set already), and local shops have plenty of Clad Sets...

I was at a LCS, looking at a run of 1999-2008 Clad Proof Sets. They also had the 2012 Clad & Silver Proof Sets for less than their going rate on ebay, so I was really torn.

The owner fetched a Mint box for me, and we made a deal.
I checked the coins, all are problem-free.
$200 total out the door for the items you see here:

Wow...does he have any more?

That's a nice deal!

Relax, Coindog, it wasn't Colfax Coin. This was from a shop in Colorado Springs.
I was down there because they have the 1999-2008 Clad Proof Set run for (display case price) $200. I bought the items in the picture instead.

Some may not consider 60 miles away to be "local", but I do go to this shop roughly once a month.

Their case signs were asking $100 for the 2012 Silver and $50 for the 2012 Clad.
Since several recent auctions finished above $120 for the Silver and $60 for the Clad, and even the lower auctions were ending $100 Silver and $50 Clad, I thought this was a fair deal. So did the woman in front of me, who was really happy about getting a Silver Set!

If we judge by the case signs, I got the 1999-2008 Clad Proof Quarters run for $50.

It is ironic that I bought these two 2012 Sets when I already have two Silver Sets and one Clad acquired for issue price, but I thought this was a better deal for my two Benjamins than the 1999-2008 full Clad Proof Set run.