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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cladking, post: 26427467, member: 68&quot;]I&#039;m not suggesting 500 &#039;71 mint sets don&#039;t exist.&nbsp; I&#039;m suggesting that the guys on TV who sell 1971 mint sets for about $8 each aren&#039;t going to have any sets at all to sell wholesale for $3 or $4 each. The &#039;71 is one of the tougher ones to acquire so when they sell sets there are no &#039;71&#039;s left over. </p><p><br /></p><p>These don&#039;t seem to sell especially well but I wager they aren&#039;t cutting up many mint sets to sell the parts.&nbsp; Lots and lots of proof sets are cut up but not mint sets and especially not 1971&#039;s.&nbsp; They sell so few mint set pieces that they can be accounted for by just the destruction of bad and otherwise unsaleable sets.&nbsp; People don&#039;t realize there is no wholesale market for these coins.&nbsp; It looks like there&#039;s a market because everything has catalog prices but the real market is not what is apparent.&nbsp; The real market is just a flow of mint sets from original buyers to wholesalers who eventually end up destroying them.&nbsp; Most of the leftovers end up in circulation.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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