Do you collect year / mint sets ?

Hello 

How many of you collect year /mint sets ? Do you collect only your country's sets or do you also collect sets from other countries ?

I only collect Japan by year and I usually buy  a set only if it's cheaper than to acquire the coins separately witch often is the case (on the after-market of course). Also if I want all available denominations that are minted I am forced to acquire sets from 2015 onwards, the last time the 1 Yen was minted for circulation.
Then I break them out of there bulky graves and put them in my collection neatly fitting next to the other coins.

I have a few, only from the US though.
The last few years I've been buying the silver mint sets.  I love how perfect the coins look.  You can see all the details there were put into the designs.

Yes although not crazily. I often buy them out of interest. I have most of the UNC ones of NZ up to the 1980s.

I have quite a few Australian ones from 1966 through to 2007 and also a couple of proof sets

I have some American ones from the 80s and a couple a bit later.

Also have some 1980s British ones.

My best though are four British proof sets which are all fairly rare.

1911 - Half Crown to Maundy Penny - this cost me lots and is my very best set of anything

Cat - £1350

1927 - Crown to 3d new coinage designs - another beauty with rare Crown and 3d 

Cat - £750

1937 - more common, but still nice - This has the crown to farthing and includes a separate Maundy set from standard 3d. The 4d Maundy is  missing, but have replaced this with a 1938 Maundy 4d (Not shown).

Cat - £225

1911 and 1937  of these are the cheapest type issued, as larger sets with the Gold coins were also issued and these are super rare.

Moneytane

Yes although not crazily. I often buy them out of interest. I have most of the UNC ones of NZ up to the 1980s.

I have quite a few Australian ones from 1966 through to 2007 and also a couple of proof sets

I have some American ones from the 80s and a couple a bit later.

Also have some 1980s British ones.

 

My best though are four British proof sets which are all fairly rare.

 

 

1911 - Half Crown to Maundy Penny - this cost me lots and is my very best set of anything

Cat - £1350

 

1927 - Crown to 3d new coinage designs - another beauty with rare Crown and 3d 

Cat - £750

 

  

1937 - more common, but still nice - This has the crown to farthing and includes a separate Maundy set from standard 3d. The 4d Maundy is  missing, but have replaced this with a 1938 Maundy 4d (Not shown).

Cat - £225

 

1911 and 1937  of these are the cheapest type issued, as larger sets with the Gold coins were also issued and these are super rare.

Incredible sets there, I am in awe! I am quite impressed by the conditions of the cases you have with the coins, it is not uncommon for them to be derelict. The coins look incredible too, especially on the 1911 set.

Following the theme of British proof sets, here is my 1953 proof set. No where near as impressive or expensive as your sets, but these have very nice cameo fields to them.

Well I like it, your set is much better than the average 1953s which have toned, damaged cases and very toned and tarnished coins.

I don't even have a 1953 for Britain or New Zealand, but do have the coins EF or UNC

Close though is this 1950 British Proof set, issued only because its mid century.

By now there is no precious metal and the plush case is cheap cardboard (Gradual devolution, the 1911 was rosewood).

This set is good as the Penny and Threepence are both scarce.

After that I have nothing until 1970.

This is a 1990 NZ special proof set for the sesqui centenary, the coins are all sterling silver, 7000 sets issued, but with the white sleeve only 100 issued as well and this is very special.

I used to collect the Royal Mint's commemorative annual proof sets but ignore the standard annual sets.

The plan was to get the proofs so I could appreciate the artistry, but still to have the thrill of trying to hunt them down “in the wild” as circulating coins.

But if coins aren't designed for circulating, are they even coins? (That's rhetorical, let's not open that can of worms today! 😛)

Anyway, the Royal Mint largely stopped releasing commemorative coins into circulation ~2016/17, which was also when they started to push the price up on the sets. So I stopped collecting them. Think my last annual set is 2015.

I still get the earlier sets as & when funds allow. Would happily buy them all now, but too poor for that . 😛 Over time, should get back as far as 1970. Get one or two a year. Eventually, I'll have a full set of circulating decimal coins in both circulated & proof.

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Moneytane - those are some beautiful sets there!