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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;freespirit, post: 334664, member: 12469&quot;]<b>1999 Silver Proof</b></p><p><br /></p><p>I may be way out there on my rationality as I am new to this whole coin collecting. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>But I think the 1999 Silver Proof is will always be high in collectible value.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>The US Population census is about 303 million citizens. There is an estimate of 140 million new collectors in the coin collecting for the state quarters.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Young, old, children have now starting collecting the state quarters. So many now have the bug. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>There was only 804,000 and some 1999 Silver Full proofs minted. I figure about 1/3 of these got split apart due to dealers separating them to sell each part separately, also to remove the coins get them graded etc. Some just stuck in a drawer maybe even lost in a fire etc, or people just didn&#039;t care about them so lost taken apart spent etc. . So if we take 1/3 off of the 804,000 brings down to about 536,000 still intack original Full proof sets maybe higher lets say 700,000 still left intack.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>K with 303 million us citizens and only 700,000 left of the 1999 complete silver original sets to be divided up amoung 50 states (not that they will be divided like this just a quick sinerio) that is only 14,000 people in each state that could even possibly have obtained a chance of having a completed original full set of the state quarters program. Full sets meaning the 1999-2009 silver proofs, 1999-2009 clad proofs, and 1999-2009 P&amp;D mint sets.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Now lets see Hawaian Islands has 1,275,194 people as of the year 2005. So even 14,000 people were to have full sets in this state would not be that much. Same with Idaho which is not a populated state of 1,429,096 in 2005 still again 14,000 is not very many and it goes on. The states with the largest population 14,000 is only going to be like a handful. New York state For example has 19,254,630 residence as of 2005.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Now later on all these children and some adults that started there precious quarter sets have grown up and became actual serious collectors or course some will drop out and not collect anymore lets say only 1/10&nbsp; continue collecting out of the 140 million new collectors thats 1.4 million new collectors. They remember the good times of sitting with family and sorting through change to find the quarters. well now they want the full set of the collection that started them out in the first place. And they want the silver, clad, mints etc. well the 1999 silver is never going to be an easy one for them to aquire and so therefore I think the price will stay relatively high in that aspect.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I have the full compete series up to date but actually this set is for my husband he will get them all for valentines day (he does not know I purchased them for him) at that time he will be givin the opportunity to sell, them and keep the money to spend on what ever he may like or keep them as a nice collection. In the end the decision will be up to him. I do hope he does want to keep them as I do think that it would be somthing nice to hand down to our children.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Another factor I see is 1999-2000 is the year of the turn of the century this also could play a part. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I may be way off on my thinking or reasoning, numbers etc. but I guess my theory might not be the same as someone elses!</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>What a great board. Thanks for listening and sorry for the long post.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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