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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cladking, post: 8055738, member: 68&quot;]The bottom line is we have the choice between nice coins or badly tarnished and irreversibly damaged sets.&nbsp; I cherry picked lots of very high grade mint sets over the years.&nbsp; Some of them were simply incredible and must have been assembled at the minty through intention.&nbsp; The coins were just so nice they wouldn&#039;t exist through mere chance alone.&nbsp; It broke my heart to cut them up.&nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I still have some of the later dates in more stable packaging but most of the best ones were early dates from before the days the sets were assembled mechanically.&nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p>But ultimately I&#039;m a coin collector and not a set collector.&nbsp; The sets are worth more apart than together anyway since for many years the coins are worth more in aggregate than as a set.&nbsp; The same applies to Gem sets; you can&#039;t sell the sets intact for much of a premium but high grades bring a lot of money slabbed.&nbsp; Believe me Gem sets that have tarnished won&#039;t even bring wholesale prices.&nbsp; You can catch these coins before the damage is irreversible and I believe we have an obligation to future generations to do so.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I don&#039;t know about karma but I do know it is wrong to have allowed these coins to be worn away in circulation without setting any aside and then allowing the surviving mint sets to ruin the coins in them.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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