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Message:: [QUOTE="Just Carl, post: 777797, member: 4552"]The sum of the parts is always greater than the individual item. By that I mean if you take a car to a junk yard and they give you $100 for it, then resell all the parts for virtually thousands, that's what is called BUISNESS. Many dealers purchase large amounts of proof or uncirculated sets from the Mint, break them all out, place in 2x2's or the 1-1/2x 1-1/2" size flips. Then at coin shows or coin stores, sell each individual coin for basically what they are listed at in the many price guides available. If you used the Red Book as a price guide, and you really shouldn't, you could add up each coin in a proof set and come up with a value many times greater than the original entire set. Dealers make a lot of money doing this. They know that people save coins in Albums and most have a slot for proofs. Rather than purchasing an entire set, they would rather just buy what is needed for an album. And so dealers make out doing this. At one coin show I go to a dealer sells basically all Uncirculated and Proof coins loose in flips. He does have some miscellaneous other coins but primarily it's those loose Unc and Proofs that is his buisness and has one of the most crowded tables at the show.[/QUOTE]