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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 68656, member: 112&quot;]You are making a fair comparison - but you are still confusing mintage numbers of individual coins with number of sets sold.</p><p><br /></p><p>The Botanic Gardens Proof $1 you mentioned - there were a total of 264,528 minted and sold. 80,000 of those were sold in the &#039;97 Prestige sets and 184,528 of them were sold as individual coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>Your comments are kind of like saying that the 80,000 Proof coins sold in the Prestige sets were somehow different than the other 1,895,000 of them were. </p><p><br /></p><p>Do you see what I mean ? The only thing that makes them special in any way is the packaging they were sold in - in other words the sets. But the <u>coins</u> in those Prestige sets were exactly the same as the &#039;97 Proof sets. </p><p><br /></p><p>Yes the Prestige set cost more - but that is because they are popular. And because the US coin market has gone crazy in the past 5 years. Three or four years ago you could have bought that &#039;97 Prestige set for about $75.</p><p><br /></p><p>The cost today has absolutely <b>nothing</b> to do with the mintage numbers. It only has to do with the number of sets available and the fact that a lot of people want them.</p><p><br /></p><p>3 years ago that was not the case. And 3 years from now - it likely won&#039;t be the case either.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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