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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 164330, member: 112&quot;]Ya know, until about 2002 nobody ever really cared how many of the Proof sets or the Silver Proof sets that the mint sold. They just didn&#039;t care one way or the other. But in &#039;02, the price for the &#039;99 sets began to creep up. By &#039;03 the price for the &#039;01 sets began to creep up. </p><p><br /></p><p>Now why did all this happen ? Easy, it happened because a lot of the new collectors, those who never collected coins before 2002 - suddenly had to buy them for their sets. And when everybody else saw the prices going up - they suddenly had to buy as many as they could so THEY could get in on the easy profits.</p><p><br /></p><p>Well gang, until about 3 or 4 years ago - there were no profits to be made by buying US Mint products on the secondary market. And that&#039;s easy to understand too - because until then, they were money <u>losers</u> on the secondary market.</p><p><br /></p><p>But now all of a sudden it seems like the only thing that too many people care about are the easy profits to be made in the secondary market. But the mint isn&#039;t issuing the coins for people to make profits - they are making them for the mint to make profits, and for collectors of course.</p><p><br /></p><p>What happened to all the collectors - the ones who didn&#039;t care ? Where did they go ?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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