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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 13954, member: 112&quot;]It means both things actually.</p><p><br /></p><p>Too many people make a big deal out of the Mint&#039;s marketing plans. The Mint knows the silver quarters are very popular and a big seller. So this year they decided to sell them twice. Once as a set containing just the quarters. Of course they made sure to sell this set first because they knew people would buy it.</p><p><br /></p><p>But the very same quarter sets - in the same packaging - are now being sold in the full annual Silver Proof sets. The Mint also knows people will buy these sets because they want the rest of the silver Proof coins too. But to get them - these people have to buy the silver Proof quarters all over again. In effect - buying the very same thing twice which allows the Mint to make even more profit.</p><p><br /></p><p>You have to give them credit - it&#039;s brilliant marketing strategy. Of course it increases the mintage numbers of the silver Proof quarters by however many silver Proof quarter sets they sold - in this case just over 600,000. So that will have an effect on the price of these sets in the secondary market. The price will be lower than usual because there are more of them.</p><p><br /></p><p>As for the production schedule - the Mint began striking coins for the &#039;04 sets in the fall of &#039;03. They continue to make these sets until the fall of &#039;04 when they begin making the annual sets for &#039;05 or until they think they have made as many as they can sell.</p><p><br /></p><p>So it&#039;s not that the Silver Proof Quarters are all gone - they are not. It&#039;s just you can&#039;t buy them all by themselves anymore. There will likely be another 2 million or so sets sold as part of the full Silver Proof sets.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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