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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cladking, post: 5512550, member: 68&quot;]There&#039;s not a lot of demand except at the wholesale level.&nbsp; The typical LCS will have two or three of these but might not display them.&nbsp; Every six months or a year they&#039;ll package up all their mint and proof sets and send them off to wholesalers or jobbers.&nbsp; The sets then mostly end up for promotions, TV sales, and fodder for sale on the net.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>There are other avenues by which such sets end up getting sold but the bulk of sets still come from estates and are purchased by the LCS.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>There are also increasing sales of this kind of coin at estate sales and flea markets.&nbsp; The public has a voracious appetite for these coins and are always on the lookout for what they perceive is a &quot;good deal&quot;.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve long warned that a lot of moderns that are eschewed by collectors are going into the hands of the general public and this is accelerating as the total supply of coins is crashing.&nbsp;&nbsp; The public is probably not putting these coins into safe storage and coaxing them out of their hands might prove rather difficult.&nbsp; When specific demand for something like the 40% silver bicentennial set emerges there will no longer be much supply because it&#039;s already been &quot;allocated&quot; elsewhere.&nbsp; Old coins are generally not in the hands of the public.&nbsp; For every nice XF &#039;24-D cent owned by a non-collector there are 50 or 80 in collections and safety deposit boxes.&nbsp; But for every &#039;76 40% set owned by the public collectors own only about half of one.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>This will prove for &quot;interesting&quot; markets in the future no matter what prices they bring.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>It will prove even more interesting when collectors wake up and find something like an MS-65 1984 cent with nice surfaces and no carbon spots are actually rare.&nbsp; There were very few around in 1985 but most have grown carbon spots.&nbsp; Now most of the mint sets are gone and many of the survivors were bought&nbsp; on Home Shopping Network.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>We certainly live in interesting times.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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