Ten coins are included as part of the newest product released today at noon ET by the United States Mint, the 2023 Silver Proof Set. Seven of these coins are struck in 99.9% pure silver.
This annually issued set is consistently popular among collectors, generating hundreds of thousands in sales. When the 2022-dated set launched, collectors snapped up 173,861 of them in the first four days. This year’s set does have a higher price barrier, at $130, compared to last year’s set which was initially sold for $105, but has since increased to $130.
The coins within the set are produced at the U.S. Mint’s facility in San Francisco and showcase a proof quality finish, distinguished for its frosted foregrounds and mirror-like backgrounds. Additionally, these coins undergo multiple strikes to ensure an elevated level of detail.
2023 Silver Proof Set Contents
A total of ten coins are featured in the 2023 Silver Proof Set. These include:
- 2023-S Maria Tallchief Native American $1 Coin
- 2023-S Silver Kennedy Half Dollar
- 2023-S Silver Bessie Coleman Quarter
- 2023-S Silver Edith Kanakaʻole Quarter
- 2023-S Silver Eleanor Roosevelt Quarter
- 2023-S Silver Jovita Idar Quarter
- 2023-S Silver Maria Tallchief Quarter
- 2023-S Silver Roosevelt Dime
- 2023-S Jefferson Nickel
- 2023-S Lincoln Cent
Among the strikes, six of them feature designs that are exclusive to this year’s coins — the Maria Tallchief Native American $1 Coin and the five quarters. These quarter dollars mark the second year of the U.S. Mint’s American Women Quarters™ Program.
Regarding the seven .999 fine silver coins, they encompass the quarters, the Kennedy half-dollar, and the Roosevelt dime. Their collective silver weight amounts to 1.473 troy ounces. The remaining three coins maintain their standard base metal compositions.
The five quarter dollars are presented in a single protective lens, while the remaining five coins are offered in a second lens. Both sets of coins are shipped together in a single protective cardboard sleeve.
Silver Proof Set Popularity
As a reference, the sales of some previous silver proof sets are provided below, based on the latest unaudited U.S. Mint sales figures through Aug. 13:
- 2022 Silver Proof Set – 244,034*
- 2021 Silver Proof Set – 300,767*
- 2020 Silver Proof Set – 313,183
- 2019 Silver Proof Set – 412,708
- 2018 Silver Proof Set – 332,274
*The sets from 2021 and 2022 are still available, with recent weekly gains of 81 and 175, respectively.
Ordering
2023 Silver Proof Sets are available directly from the U.S. Mint via its online page dedicated to proof sets, located here.
While no mintage or household limit has been set, there is a product cap of 260,040 sets.
There’s no HOL, so for $14.2 million you can buy all that’s available and corner the market!
I sure hope that emblem on that fancied box is also made out of silver. Surely it must be for the price tag of $130!
Major D,
I didn’t even think of that, and here I’ve got $14.2 million burning a hole in my pocket.
Kaiser,
I had $14.2 million in my pocket, but had to spend $30 Million for one of those exclusive ‘La Rose Noire Droptail’ Rolls Royce. They’re only making 4 of them and, since it is based on a yacht design, it’ll be a collectable as well! Either the rich are getting absurdly rich or the dollar is becoming a peso. Or is it both?
Craig,
I can swear on our National Bald Eagle it is definitely the former. Once an individual becomes fantastically wealthy further riches are just drawn to them ever more quickly and voluminously like the particles from a cosmic dust cloud to whatever is the largest source of gravitation in the vicinity.
As for the Rolls-Royce, wait for the Chinese “Dark Pink Cultural Evolution” version; I’m sure Magic Mike will be offering it already graded 70.
Put my cremated remains in a beanie baby or funko pop case and certify through ngc limited edition 1 of 1 from the fiji mint. Sealed with silver colored lead. Entombed in a genuine red oak box. But only if 5 flex pay and free shipping plus 15% off my first order.
Major D,
Let’s do it! And then we could charge coin dealers $260 per set & then fly to Fiji for an extended vacation…
NumisdudeTX
Sounds good. As long as they serve Bahama Mamas or equivalent rum drinks on the beach.
Screw that, fly to fiji and have them make the set like the mint should have
D & C,
I’m all for competition in the coin marketplace. Bring it on Fiji Mint! Lol.
NumisdudeTX
The Fiji Mint Julep.
And you pay for it with the Andrew Jackson Five dollar.
You forgot John Q anon Adams
Seth,
If the Fiji Mint isn’t interested there are many more tiny Pacific island nations that would be more than happy to take up the numismatic slack.
Send us Samoa.
We’re going into overtime, as we’re tieland.
Put on your shoes or you might krakatoa on the furniture.
Easter island is risen, only 8 months til his b day.
I like magic, the Aleutians are mind bending.
Buckaroo bonsai tree.
The Filidelphiapino mint.
Mint a roni, the San Francisco treat.
Think it’s time for you to lay off of the crack pipe.
Well thanks to the fear mongers we’re all gonna have to wear n95 masks or die. Hard to hit the pipe with a mask on. But more curiously, how are able to do it with your head so far up you own a55
Based on this thread alone Dazed and Coinfused, I cannot fault your response here. But after immersing myself in all that is Dazed and Coinfused over the past 2 days, I cannot be sure you did not instigate it on some earlier thread I did not read either. I cannot say I have ever noticed Major D just start to insult people out of the blue without some kind of prior provocation, but I have seen you pull insults out of nowhere before. Many times in just the past few days, actually. Can you both just lay off the insults… Read more »
Alright Major D, I am not sure exactly where this started from (but I noticed today Dazed and Coinfused has been continuing it all by himself elsewhere, which I responded to), but even assuming you didn’t just decide to start insulting Dazed and Coinfused out of the blue here, can you keep it to the moment? His comment seems mild to me. An insult for an insult, remember. Nobody ever seems able to end conflict unless everyone is even. It looks to me like you instigated this round, Major D. Did you take offense at his comment directly above? It… Read more »
Damn, I’m glad there is no household order limit at $130 each! And you get almost 1.5 ounces of silver…but wait, there’s more, because you get 3 base metal coins as an added bonus. The Mint’s largesse never ends…
Sales have obviously dropped off since the price increase from $105 last year to $130 this year.
NumisdudeTX
You know, if this set actually contained the first silver penny (aka cent), silver nickel (full silver, not the 40% war nickel), and silver N.A. dollar– I’d definitely go for it.
Major D,
Amen! The Mint would sell a lot of that kind of set if they could get authorization to do it.
NumisdudeTX
Seth,
I believe it would be a sellout from day one.
Major D,
Absolutely brilliant, not to mention extra shiny!
My precious
It went up in price because it contains a cent that identifies as a penny. Representing less than 1% of the population. Also, wouldn’t a cherry box be more appropriate for Washington quarters.
As per Magic Mike Mezack, the undisputed champ of coins sales, Red Oak!
I bet the waiting room was packed
With packing material for the shipping boxes of all the sets that weren’t ordered.
HURRY !!!! HURRY!!! Before “IRON” Mike Mezack gets them all !!! $130 What a “DEAL”!!!! LOL!!! KEEP RUNNING “FORREST” !!!>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
I am SAM!!! Oh I AM RUNNING!!!!>>>>>>><<<<<>>>>>>>
What, sam “i am” tweedy, no recognition for the “OLD LADIES” here? What’s going on?
Kaiser,
You just reminded me it’s High Tea Tuesday today at my house…all you coin collector ladies are welcome…a spot of Earl Grey tea & biscuits and lots of gossip…oh my! Lol.
NumisdudeTX
Seth,
I thought you’d never ask. Happy days, and you sold me with the gossip!
Mostly silver set. If they can make clad quarters in silver, the others should be too. But still even 3 oz of silver put the markup at crazy levels. I will be skipping this. Although probably the only way to get a pf70 S quarter.
Dazed and Coinfused,
At least an actual all-silver set would be extravagant rather than completely inane.
I have the subscription for 1 set…. its the hobby. I stopped getting clad sets 3 years ago. This is prob my last year with the hobby (after 50 years) and everything else but the Morgan and Peace…. that may be iffy too tho.
Domenic,
As George Harrison so presciently said, “All things must pass”.
“To every thing there is a season.”
It is still sad. I remember seeing his name for at least a few years now, unless I am totally misremembering. He probably was active here long before I even started looking at this site. He did not comment often if I recall, but did every once in a while. I started buying the Silver Proof Set in 2009, I think. Possibly 2010 at the start of the ATB quarters. I never was interested in the clad set.
Domenic–Hope you keep on commenting occasionally. Take care.
Always glad to see your posts too, Kaiser Wilhelm.
Everyone that gets this set has a good reason to do so. I have no reason to get this.
What would the good reason be?
Dazed,
We would have to ask everyone here. I for one do not volunteer to do that. 😉
There are too many reasons to list. For that person who chooses it is probably a special event for a gift. Perhaps to continue a collection. None in my calendar this year.
Rooster,
It was always a “must” for me in past years. For whatever reason I don’t feel that compulsion this year so I am perfectly comfortable sitting it out.
I go by the Mayan calendar. Since the universe collapsed in 2012 my calendar stays open
Dazed,
I take all my cues from a counter-intuitive source in a non-parallel cosmos. Thanks to the happy reality that my connection to same never approaches anything more than extremely tenuous I can pretty much adlib whatever directives I’m supposed to be receiving.
Can you get a single proof Kennedy Half anywhere else?
Rooster,
Well put indeed. Says it all.
But the stripper at the club takes it as payment for her college degree. You can write it off on taxes. That’s a good ain’t it?
Dazed,
What with the price of college tuition she’d have to get a set from everyone at the Central States and FUN conventions. Then there’s the cost of grading her.
I lost interest in the Silver Proof Set years ago.
Robert,
I’m a bit behind in the game as this is my first year to skip it. Better late than never.
anybody elses silver proof set still stuck in processing? it was a subscription.
I got my email saying it was shipped on 8/22, Domenic. I have a subscription too. If you haven’t called the Mint about it yet, I think you should.
Jeff and Domenic,
When in doubt, it’s good to let yourself be heard from. Proactive is always good.
I got my set today.
Congrats, Jeff. I hate to say it, but I think I might now be experiencing what I would have to call “non-buyer’s remorse”.