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Message:: [QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 2791607, member: 112"]Seems to me you've answered your own question with your 2nd sentence. So are you just looking for validation of your choice - or something else ? My answer would be OGP because for me it was OGP or nothing. But that's me. And, you've only got 4 more to go - '50-'53 - to have the series in OGP. Or is it that you are unaware that's all you have left ? I say that because in my entire life, getting pretty close to 60 years worth of involvement in numismatics, when it comes to the '36-'42 sets I have only ever even seen 2 examples of complete sets in OGP . One a '41, the other a '42. And both of those were just in pictures, I've never seen in person. In almost 60 years that's it ! So does that give you an idea of their scarcity ? It's even possible that none of the other years still exist in OGP. And maybe not any more of those 2 either. The theory is that pre-war there were very few collectors who wanted Proofs let alone sets, so only very, very, small numbers of complete sets were sold, if indeed sets of all dates were even sold at all. Most collectors back then were only interested in individual examples and there wasn't a whole lot of collectors like that either. '36 was the 1st time in many decades that Proofs were even produced so nobody was collecting them.[/QUOTE]