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<p>[QUOTE="cladking, post: 2345715, member: 68"]The coins are worth more out of the set.</p><p> </p><p>The sets are the best, and often the only, source of coins from the last half century and their quality is far superior to any other source. Indeed, most of the BU clad you see in singles and rolls all originated in mint sets. Of course this doesn't apply to all dates like 1976 or 2004 quarters. </p><p> </p><p>I break them to get Gems and varieties but these sets get chopped up in huge numbers because they just flow from estates to wholesalers for decades. The wholesalers can't move mint sets and they can move singles so the sets are destroyed enmass. </p><p> </p><p>You could once go to a coin show and there were far too many sets to get in a truck. Now days you can carry them in one arm usually and the dealers no longer have storage rooms full of them back at the shop. When their inventory builds up they ship them off or cut them up and put them in the cash register.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="cladking, post: 2345715, member: 68"]The coins are worth more out of the set. The sets are the best, and often the only, source of coins from the last half century and their quality is far superior to any other source. Indeed, most of the BU clad you see in singles and rolls all originated in mint sets. Of course this doesn't apply to all dates like 1976 or 2004 quarters. I break them to get Gems and varieties but these sets get chopped up in huge numbers because they just flow from estates to wholesalers for decades. The wholesalers can't move mint sets and they can move singles so the sets are destroyed enmass. You could once go to a coin show and there were far too many sets to get in a truck. Now days you can carry them in one arm usually and the dealers no longer have storage rooms full of them back at the shop. When their inventory builds up they ship them off or cut them up and put them in the cash register.[/QUOTE]
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