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Message:: [QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 143201, member: 112"]Danr is pretty much right in my opinion - and there's a reason for it. Before the SQs came out in '99, most coin dealers would only buy a few mint sets or Proof sets. They just couldn't sell them because nobody wanted them. And in '99 they didn't buy very many. Few collctors bought them either. But by the time 2000 rolled around, the popularity of the SQs was growing like crazy and dealers all over were going nuts trying to find '99 Proof sets and mint sets and the prices jumped. And the dealers stocked up heavily on the 2000 sets. By the time 2001 came, the dealers were still sitting on all those 2000 sets they bought. The public had discovered the US Mint's web site and that's where most folks bought their sets. The dealers weren't selling the 2000 sets so they didn't buy the '01 sets either. But the public did - they bought 'em like crazy. And that's where they all went - into a closet, in a drawer or in someone's collection. By 2002, the price for the '01 sets was climbing because the dealers didn't have any in stock - they were all in the hands of the public. So the prices for the '01 sets started climbing. They haven't stopped yet.[/QUOTE]