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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sholom, post: 603881, member: 17753&quot;]I stopped by the US Mint store at Union Station today at around 1:30 pm.&nbsp; The man behind the counter said they had already sold 1000 proof sets.&nbsp; (No wonder the Mint web site is slow).</p><p><br /></p><p>The coins with the box and all (four lenses) weighs 11 oz.&nbsp; The individual lenses weigh 1.8 oz for the Lincolns, 2.6 oz for the &quot;other&quot;, and 2.8 oz each for the 6-clad quarter and the 4-president sets.</p><p><br /></p><p>(Knowing weights is useful for flippers.&nbsp; I may have gotten burned. The set plus the box plus my bubble-padded envlope weights just a tad over 13 oz.&nbsp; I pre-sold a couple of sets with a pretty slim margin, never thinking in a million years it&#039;s be over 13 oz, which is the upper limit for inexpensive first class mailing.&nbsp; If I can&#039;t get it below 13 oz., then I&#039;ve lost money on them.&nbsp; Oh well, live and learn).</p><p><br /></p><p>While I was there, a guy was purchasing 200 clad quarter sets (!!).&nbsp; I managed to ask him what he was doing, since I couldn&#039;t see how he could possibly make enough money re-selling them to justify any expenses.&nbsp; He said that he&#039;s going to send a ton of them off to a grading service, and when a few come back as MS-70 he&#039;ll make all his money back.</p><p><br /></p><p>The other guy behind the counter said that this problem of the &quot;reverse flow&quot; of coinage that we so often talk about (that coins seem to flow from people to venders and banks during times of recession, rather than the other way around -- and that&#039;s why we see so few 2009 coins, and that&#039;s why they are making so few 2009 coins) . . . is leading to old coins coming back into circulation.&nbsp; He said that he got a silver dime in change the other day (!!).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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