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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Paddy54, post: 2470882, member: 19250&quot;]Working coin shows I can tell&nbsp; you&nbsp; first hand that book values on prestige&nbsp; set and true value are two different&nbsp; things . One of the last shows&nbsp; I worked the dealer who I work for had a customer&nbsp; that purchased&nbsp; a mess of mint and proof sets. He was more than happy to unload them!</p><p>I have also witnessed&nbsp; customers&nbsp; who have come in selling&nbsp; all of the above as well as the prestige&nbsp; sets and no one in the room were interested&nbsp; in&nbsp; even making a offer.</p><p>They aren&#039;t&nbsp; in favor with most collectors ,&nbsp; yes they are very well done as far as the packaging , they just take up a lot of room in the safe. The coins for the most part&nbsp; are very common&nbsp; with high mintage. </p><p>The modern commemorative again are easy to obtain and since that market is soft they aren&#039;t&nbsp; in demand.</p><p>Since during&nbsp; the&nbsp; years that these sets were issued there were other options&nbsp; to obtain the same commemorative&nbsp; coins.</p><p>Working security&nbsp; at shows&nbsp; I meet and greet sign in customers .&nbsp; When asked who is buying&nbsp; I often&nbsp; say all the dealers&nbsp; are always&nbsp; looking&nbsp; to buy. Then I ask what do you have to sell so I can best direct you to a dealer&nbsp; whom I believe&nbsp; may be interested .</p><p>About two shows ago a man walked in with a complete&nbsp; Franklin&nbsp; set in a very nice Capital&nbsp; holder. All the coins were MS. Not one dealer was interested&nbsp; in making a offer!</p><p>The last show again the same man walked in again no takers. I explained&nbsp; to him that none of the dealers were interested&nbsp; as they didn&#039;t&nbsp; want to offend&nbsp; him with an offer&nbsp; for spot. </p><p>However&nbsp; I told him to take the set home and if the kids weren&#039;t&nbsp; interested&nbsp; in holding&nbsp; on to the set come back in August&nbsp; . I would make him a offer. </p><p>Dealers&nbsp; are not going to carry inventory&nbsp; that just sits.</p><p>My friend got lucky&nbsp; at the last show moving all those mint and proof sets. Especially&nbsp; sets that take up so much space.</p><p>And show very little interest&nbsp; by most collectors .[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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