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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Coinman1981, post: 1021270, member: 20610&quot;]I&#039;ve been collecting for nearly 20 years and second all those here that say you A) shouldn&#039;t invest in modern proof sets and B) shouldn&#039;t invest in coins. </p><p><br /></p><p>If you like those proof sets, then great. But otherwise, I wouldn&#039;t look to proof sets for investing. In all honesty, there are only two proof sets I wish I had &quot;invested&quot; in: the 1999-S silver 9-coin set and 2001-S silver set. I could&#039;ve bought these sets for around $35 at the time straight from the mint, but chose to go with the 5-coin quarter sets only because that was what I could afford at the time -- and I was perfectly content with my 5 clad 50 States Quarters. </p><p><br /></p><p>To be frank, I never understood why those two sets have gone gangbusters, but they did -- plenty of other sets have had lower intages in recent years and nosedived in price. Even the 1995-S proof set has come down in recent years. There&#039;s no reason why the &#039;99-S and &#039;01-S won&#039;t eventually sink in value, either.</p><p><br /></p><p>The best story I can relate this to is the 1973-S 40% silver proof Eisenhower. It was perceived as &quot;rare&quot; at one point and people snapped it up left and right. If I had the money and the ability, I would have had to lay out over $150 (nearly $350 today) as an infant to buy one. But look at what has happened to the value of that piece over the last nearly 30 years.</p><p><br /></p><p>The key point here? Modern coins (and proof sets) CAN and DO increase in value, but in most cases there simply are too many of them on the market and, thus, prices -- if they do go up initially after sale from the mint -- eventually stagnate or come down on moderns.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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