Breaking Up Mint Sets

I've broken up a couple because there was specific coins I wanted for my collection. I wouldn't hesitate to do it again. Of course, it also depends on the set...I would never do it to one that's more valuable.

I have broken them up myself also and I really have no reservations of breaking up a set unless it is some kind of SMS or something (which was their form of proof sets because there had no proof sets for those years)but even I have broken them up, I have a 64 or 65 (don't remember which) SMS kenedy in my dansco I cut out of a special mint set

I buy a mint set, a proof set, and a silver proof set each year from the mint, to break up and put into my Dansco album. I am the type of person that likes to see the set together in the album. I also buy 2 each of the proof, and silver proof to save.

I usually don't break up mint sets. Only once I broke up a mint set for a Roosevelt dime. Unless I need or want a particular coin, I leave the sets alone.

I buy both mint and proof sets fully intending to break them out. I have a few that are still complete but only because they are the key dates like the 04 mint and 01 proof I will sale them sooner or later but the rest get broke. I buy 3 sets of each every year one to hold on to one to sale later or trade and one to break open saves big money on my books I get every coin so every book gets at least 2 coins a year. try to buy the coins separate you will loose your mind
Gary

Mint sets not only contain the best examples of most of the circulating coins but in many cases they are the only or nearly the only examples. Where else can you get a 1973 Ike or an unc 1969 quarter?

If you buy one of these coins elsewhere you'll not only pay more for probably lesser quality but you'll cause another mint set to be cut up.

A lot of people want to display their denominational sets together. This means a lot of mint sets get busted up. Generally the mint sets are worth MORE after you disassemble them but be careful since you'll lose a lot of money on a few dates like the '95, '97, and most of the '99 and later.

The idea that whole Mint or even Proof sets are more valuable as an original set is basically not true. Many, many dealers do it all the time and sell each coin separately. I too break up many proof and Uncirc sets for Albums. For example in a Whitman Cent (Penny) Album there are slots for Proofs and to buy them from a dealer is expensive to say the least. The reason dealers do this is that the prices of the parts always exceeds the price of the whole. Sort of like a car. You take an old, beat up, pile of junk of a car to a junk yard and get about $50 for it. Now someone else needs your old car's steering wheel, $20. Someone else needs the inside door and window nobs, $30. This goes on until your old car has been sold for thousands of dollars and what is left goes to the steel mills and more income for metal.
This is the facts of a coin set from the Mint. Each coin sells for so much that the end results is about 75% profit or more.

I bought one year of mint sets and never broke them. I was disappointed in that I could get better coins in OBW rolls. So I only have them for one year. But that year is a good one to have according to the " Red Book" prices. Didn't realize the price had risen on that year mint sets/proof sets/silver sets.