CoinTalk Members React to Posted U.S. Mint Silver Price Increases, Including $164 Presidential Medals
A thread on the U.S. coin forum CoinTalk discussed what posters described as new U.S. Mint prices for silver products. The first poster wrote that presidential medals, long priced at $90, now cost $164 and that the regular silver proof set is $245. The source gives no date, and the prices are posters' statements, not checked against a Mint announcement.
Correction (Oct 13, 2026): We rewrote the headline, summary and body to match the source, a CoinTalk forum thread. We presented the price increases as posters' statements rather than confirmed facts and noted that the source gives no date for the thread. We removed an unsupported investment conclusion (holding purchases for 48 hours) and unrelated search keywords (such as Morgan dollars), and corrected a passage that placed silver's rise within "last year," a passage saying ASEs would cross $100 (the poster said they already had), a passage tying the grandchildren post to dismay at the price increase, and a quote attributed to a poster (-jeffB in the source) that does not appear in the post. The previous headline was "US Mint Silver Price Changes Spur Collector Discontent."
This article is based only on posts in a thread on the U.S. coin forum CoinTalk titled "US Mint updated silver pricing today." The source does not give a date for the thread. The prices below were posted by forum members and have not been checked against a U.S. Mint announcement. Opinions are those of the posters.
Prices listed by the posters
The first poster, Vess1, wrote that the increase "is going to hit wallets like a tsunami" and listed these prices:
- Presidential medals, priced at $90 for years: $164 each - The regular silver proof set: $245 - 1 oz comic art medals: $200 each
Vess1 wrote that the change "will have an upward effect on everything." Recalling talk a few years ago of American Silver Eagles (ASEs) reaching $100, the poster wrote that they had already passed that level and "will be $200 soon."
Another member, Sting 60, wrote that the uncirculated mint set, which contains no silver, had gone up to $124 and that the regular proof set had risen to $107, and asked why.
"NO THANKS"
Collecting Nut wrote "NO THANKS!!" to the Mint, and fretboard replied with the same words. Rushmore wrote that at this rate a 2026 ASE might use up the entire year's coin budget. Collecting Nut replied that at that price a buyer could almost get 2 ounces of generic silver rounds or bars.
Histman wrote of having the sets up to last year but said the price was already ridiculous and expected to stop, while wondering whether to buy the 2026 set for the cents and then cancel. Timewarp wrote of not having bought a silver proof set since 2017 and said $50 had been the poster's limit.
Views on the silver price
physics-fan3.14 wrote that silver went from $30 an ounce at the same time last year to $91 that day, and suggested the Mint was adjusting to the new market and anticipating a continued rise so it would not have to keep re-pricing. Spark1951 also wrote that price changes were understandable given silver's rise.
green18 asked whether the Mint would quickly cut prices if silver fell, expressed doubt, and wrote of stopping purchases of Mint products this year.
Other posts
-jeffB wrote that if hardly anyone buys because of the pricing, the result would be "a new rarity," and offered to help make that happen. dwhiz wrote of buying one for each of four grandchildren every year and that this would be the 20th. tommyc03 wrote of having stopped buying Mint products in 2020 and suggested looking at non-silver series such as Shield and Buffalo nickels, or token collecting.
Source: CoinTalk, "US Mint updated silver pricing today"
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