Girl Scouts Centennial Young Collectors Set

thought they used MS coins for the young collector series?

I hope they do the proof.. I actually think these sets are kind of unique and fun. I disliked the GS coin enough to only buy the Uncirculated... so if they do this in the proof I might be convinced to buy it.

Too bad they went with the uncirculated coin. I won't jump to buy this one - any bets it will still be cheaper when it hits the secondary market?

Sales were rather slow over the first few days for the Girl Scouts "Young Collectors" set - just 1,474 sold. I guess there wasn't much pent up demand within the scouting community (or the general collecting community).

I'll be picking one up - anyone else?

I haven't decided if I'm going with one or two purchases of the Girl Scouts Centennial Young Collectors Set, but I know for a fact, that I'm not buying the Girls Scouts Proof because of the much higher mint sales numbers for the proof right now. Its 80k for the proof and 30k for the uncirculated now.

So I'm going for the circulated with the lesser number sold and I'll go with the Young Collectors packaging. I'm hoping there might be a premium added for the packaging later on but I don't know, actually, its just more fun and appealing than the regular case to me.

But what has gotten my attention from the mint is the 5-Star Generals Profile Collection.

What I thought was a little pricey at first seems very reasonable now because if I'm not mistaken, $10 for the silver dollar and $5 for the half dollars goes to the Command and General Staff College Foundation making the mint take in roughly $60 for the set which looks like a reasonable offering plus the $15 goes to a great organization. But yeah, its still 75$ either way you cut it.

The packaging on the 5 star set really got my attention and I'll be buying one of these. So again, I'll be skipping the proof and buying the circulated for the lesser mintage numbers something like 50k/21k right now? Although I have seen the proof and I love the mirror like finish, I'm going with the uncirculated.

And again I like this packaging much better than the bland case.

Priority #1 concerning this years additions is to acquire price adjustable silver products from the mint like the 5 oz pucks and the annual silver sets while the prices are still down from the last silver price reduction.

The Mint stopped offering last year's commeratives in mid December, so my plan is to get the Young Collectors Set and the 5 generals set right around the time of the last 5oz in this years series, Mt Rushmore in November.

If I'm not buying a 5oz puck from the mint, next on the shopping list would be the annual silver sets that seem like a better deal to me than the commerative stuff right now. I read somewhere recently that the annual silver proof sets will be continued until next year unlike last year but I would rather get them at the current prices.

I really like the designs of this year's comms and there is a following for girl scouts memorabilia and a huge, huge following for WW2 goods so there will be interest in the items in the future but they are the last of my priorities right now.