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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;19Lyds, post: 2599467, member: 15929&quot;]The 1999 Silver Proof Sets were undersold with less than 805,000 sold. Of that 805,000, a bunch weren&#039;t sold on the first go around and sat in the US Mints Vaults, unprotected.</p><p><br /></p><p>Year 2000 and 2001 suffered the same fates. Given the fact that the price was $31.95 for each set (compared to the CnClad sets at $19.95) they just were not selling.</p><p><br /></p><p>In 2001, the US Mint offered the 1999 and 2000 sets again at the $31.95 price. The only trouble was that due to inadequate storage, a lot of the sets were all fogged up and in some cases ruined.These were returned.</p><p><br /></p><p>In 2002, PCGS began the Set Registry Program and prices took off. Especially for the 1999 and 2000 Silver Proof State Quarters.</p><p><br /></p><p>On November 10, 2003, a PR70DCAM PCGS Georgia Quarter sold for $1,610 and then it was off to the races. The highest Price paid at a Heritage Acution was for a PR70DCAM Delaware coin which sold for..........$17,250 on Dec 4, 2007. Thats right around the time that the 1999 Silver Proof set was peaking in price at close to $500 per set.</p><p><br /></p><p>A majority of the multi-thousand dollar Silver State Quarters sold thru Heritage were Delaware coins with a spattering of others. Georgia comes in 2nd Place for highest price at $6,037.50 on Nov 30, 2007 but that $17K Price for the Delaware got a LOT of folks buying and submitting these coins. I imagine that it drove the prices up considerably.</p><p><br /></p><p>The downfall to these magical prices was.......the end of the State Quarters Program where they were now out of the public&#039;s eye. Again, if nobody is interested, then they simply will not sell.</p><p><br /></p><p>However, of ALL the State Quarter Silver Proof Sets, the 1999 still commands a slight premium over the rest.</p><p><br /></p><p>I wished that I had purchased more than the two I got at issue price.</p><p><br /></p><p>Today, I wish I had sold the one set I have left when the prices were high but, such is the Collectors Market.</p><p><br /></p><p>It goes up, then it goes down with few coins ever really retaining their hyped prices.</p><p><br /></p><p>There are some exceptions but not all that many compared to the all the various coins issued by the US Mint as Collector Pieces.</p><p><br /></p><p>PS: There was once a time when the CnClad 2001 Proof Set routinely sold for more than $100 because of the Sacagawea Dollar and no doubt, some kind of a registry scramble.</p><p><br /></p><p>Ref:&nbsp; <a href="https://coins.ha.com/itm/statehood-quarters/quarters-and-twenty-cents/1999-s-25c-delaware-silver-pr70-deep-cameo-pcgs-pcgs-population-16-0-ngc-census-207-0-numismedia-wsl-price-for-ng/a/371-67529.s?ic4=ListView-ShortDescription-071515" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://coins.ha.com/itm/statehood-quarters/quarters-and-twenty-cents/1999-s-25c-delaware-silver-pr70-deep-cameo-pcgs-pcgs-population-16-0-ngc-census-207-0-numismedia-wsl-price-for-ng/a/371-67529.s?ic4=ListView-ShortDescription-071515" rel="nofollow">https://coins.ha.com/itm/statehood-quarters/quarters-and-twenty-cents/1999-s-25c-delaware-silver-pr70-deep-cameo-pcgs-pcgs-population-16-0-ngc-census-207-0-numismedia-wsl-price-for-ng/a/371-67529.s?ic4=ListView-ShortDescription-071515</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Ref: <a href="https://coins.ha.com/itm/statehood-quarters/quarters-and-twenty-cents/1999-s-25c-georgia-silver-pr70-deep-cameo-pcgs/a/370-60979.s?ic4=ListView-ShortDescription-071515" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://coins.ha.com/itm/statehood-quarters/quarters-and-twenty-cents/1999-s-25c-georgia-silver-pr70-deep-cameo-pcgs/a/370-60979.s?ic4=ListView-ShortDescription-071515" rel="nofollow">https://coins.ha.com/itm/statehood-quarters/quarters-and-twenty-cents/1999-s-25c-georgia-silver-pr70-deep-cameo-pcgs/a/370-60979.s?ic4=ListView-ShortDescription-071515</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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