Have you ever wondered what it would cost to collect all the different coins that the United States Mint released each year? I'm not talking about the various coin sets and products, but rather one specimen of each available coin. For example, if you wanted to acquire the 2015 March of Dimes proof silver dollar and the two special 2015 proof dimes, you wouldn't need to buy the March of Dimes proof dollar on top of the 2015 March of Dimes Special Silver Proof Set, since all three coins come in the latter.

You would, however, have to buy the individual 2015 March of Dimes uncirculated silver dollar, as that piece was sold separately.

But it goes without saying that building an entire set of coins from the U.S. Mint is much more complicated now than it was in the late 1950s, '60s, '70s, or very early '80s, when the Mint struck relatively small numbers of different coins and offered a quaint (and manageable) variety of products (basically just proof sets and uncirculated sets of regular-issue coinage).

Coin collectors today certainly may have more options than our predecessors had only a few decades ago. However, the large yearly selection of new coin products from the U.S. Mint today means that more and more hobbyists are becoming more and more selective about what they buy-unless they can afford shelling out thousands of dollars each year to order virtually everything in the Mint's catalog.

And THAT'S assuming collectors can even keep track of what the Mint is offering!

Anyway, back to my question: have you ever considered how much it would cost to collect one of each of the individual coins that the UnitedStates Mint produces in a year? What follows is an attempt to answer that question for a specific year: namely, 2015. Here is a list of the minimumnumber of products one would have to buy in order to assemble a collection of all the different 2015 U.S. Coins.

Total Coins Purchased: 292
Total Issue Price: $14,915.30
Face Value: $422.09
Numismatic Coins + Bullion Coins Purchase Price: $18,714.30
Total Face Value: $563.09

Harvey Stack adds:

I'll give Harvey the last word. He writes:

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