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Message:: [QUOTE="krispy, post: 853910, member: 19065"]One doesn't usually consult a Red Book for coin prices but the 2010 Red Book gives us the 1995 5-coin set mentioned above at $6,500 and the 1987  gold bullion set at $1,650, now obviously spot price of gold affects the  actual value and these prices are dated by the time of publication. Also the prices given for the sets in the Red Book are the collectors sets issued by the US Mint  where the OPs set is not from the US Mint but rather assembled by a  secondary market coin/bullion dealer composed of bullion issue coins made into a set  to imitate authentic US Mint products. It's not a knock off, the coins are probably the real deal, but they are bullion versions, not proofs. The dealer who created the OPs set were at  the time of issue, marketing a product to capitalize on the then new  series of gold coins that were coming to market from the US Mint. Under-informed buyers  may have paid much more for these coins than what they could have  acquired directly for the coins as bullion or in actual collectors  versions if acquired from the US Mint in original Mint packaging.[/QUOTE]