Royal Mint Proof Coins - It Has Been A Tough Investment

What I think I'll do is take the proof silver coinage as commission on some other stuff I can sell for my significant consignor. Then I know realistically what to expect when I sell it and get it gone. I'd rather do that and do almost just as well with silver up as it is and not have to hear all the crying.

We do have a Highway 61 near my home.

I have found buying Mint products from Mints (All of them) frequently do not come to fruition in the buyers lifetime.
Pass them on to the future generations is my best advice.
Some coins broken out of proof sets and graded by 3rd Party Grading Services can realize great potential.
The television scamers are making good money on PF69 and PF70 Common Date Material

thankyou. When I sit down in front of my computer, I'm looking to relax, rather than to be challenged.

"if computers are so clever, then why do people have to be so clever to use them ?"

Peter

Unfortunately, although often touted as being a 'limited edition investment', modern proofs very rarely are likely ever to show a profit over even a lifetime - especially when inflation or erosion of money value is taken into account. The same can be said for those non-coin 'limited edition' bullion sets of small silver ingots (everything from replicas of postage stamps to themes such racing cars, aeroplanes, kings/queens, etc, etc) that were heavily touted a few years ago - the ones where you subscribed over a couple of years and got one a month plus a wood display cabinet. The problem is that the original selling prices had such a high mark-up over bullion content value that it will take generations to catch up.

This all just highlights the problems for anyone looking on coins purely as an investment.

For those who have them, perhaps the best thing might be to put them away for your grandchildren, in the hope that the collector base might have expanded enough by then so that there will be a better market for them. Otherwise just accept that, in most cases, all you will ever likely get back is bullion value. For gold ones, the recent strong hike in bullion values has at least seen a potential profit for those who bought the issues new from the 70s and 80s - but only because gold has shot up so far. Base metal proofs are only ever likely to achieve a fraction of their issue price. Chris Wren

sometimes it is best to buy the mint products in the second hand market. Unless you can pick the most popular coins and themes.

So-called "condition rarity". Now someone please explain how something can be called rare if 70% of the production run receives a rating of perfect (70). Seems to me that 70 is typical, not exceptional.

If they installed it when they put together your nincompute, there's a program called character map, which has stuff like ¢ £ ¥ § ‰ © ® ™ ¼ ½ ¾ and funny accent marks and ¡ ¿. I think it's under accessories, but I dragged mine to the start button years ago.

I love this stuff, but man the prices are crazy. I've been asking for proof UK coins for birthday/Christmas gifts since its that or a tie and socks! I can't bear to pay the prices myself, but figure if someone wants to spend the money on me, I may as well get something I like!