ccg Posted January 24, 2012 Report Share Posted January 24, 2012 It seems that the RCM has discontinued the sterling silver proof sets that were made between 1996 and 2011. In their place for 2012: nickel proof sets (a la pre-1995, except with the addition of the $2) @ $100 pure silver proof sets @ $225 Basically, they're cutting costs by switching the proof set back to nickel, and by making a 999 set instead of a 925 set can make an argument that the new silver set is better than that made in the past decade and half, and thus justifies a price increase I have a feeling the new nickel proof sets will have a weak wholesale after-market price in coming years since there's BV to set a baseline from. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Art1.2 Posted January 24, 2012 Report Share Posted January 24, 2012 Seems that all the gov'ts are trying to wring every cent they can from collectors. Not sure that a lot of the changes make sense. Ditto for the US mint stuff that's happened over the last few years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neweden Posted January 24, 2012 Report Share Posted January 24, 2012 I as a rule I do not collect proof sets, or any other kind of sets for that matter as I am strictly into raw coins but I figured it would only be a matter of time before RCM started replaceing silver with nickel, and I truly think we havent seen anything yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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