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<p>[QUOTE="Richard01, post: 43797, member: 2700"]So, all of those singles do break out from sets... I always wondered if perhaps the mint coins singles and sells them through distribution somehow. I love the single proof coins, and do think that they are a great buy over time (let's face it, most modern proofs have somewhere in the 3,000,000 minted, which is pretty rare in my estimation) so their value seems likely to go up faster than any other modern coins. About 7 months ago I was able to purchase a lot of 2,700 clad proofs on ebay for about fifty cents a coin. It was, for me, the best buy ever. What an amazing group of coins, with more PR66, 67, and some 68 and 69s, than you could shake a stick at. Some of the penny and nickels were even from the mid 1950s. Dimes and nickels came in rolls, well packed with material to keep them from rattling, and I did not find any scratches or damage. All in flips or other things now. I sold off about 40% of the coins and more than paid for the entire purchase, and still have about 1,500 awesome proof coins. Someone worked hard to crack those out of proof sets... but at the price I paid, WHY? It seems that they lost a lot of money somewhere.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Richard01, post: 43797, member: 2700"]So, all of those singles do break out from sets... I always wondered if perhaps the mint coins singles and sells them through distribution somehow. I love the single proof coins, and do think that they are a great buy over time (let's face it, most modern proofs have somewhere in the 3,000,000 minted, which is pretty rare in my estimation) so their value seems likely to go up faster than any other modern coins. About 7 months ago I was able to purchase a lot of 2,700 clad proofs on ebay for about fifty cents a coin. It was, for me, the best buy ever. What an amazing group of coins, with more PR66, 67, and some 68 and 69s, than you could shake a stick at. Some of the penny and nickels were even from the mid 1950s. Dimes and nickels came in rolls, well packed with material to keep them from rattling, and I did not find any scratches or damage. All in flips or other things now. I sold off about 40% of the coins and more than paid for the entire purchase, and still have about 1,500 awesome proof coins. Someone worked hard to crack those out of proof sets... but at the price I paid, WHY? It seems that they lost a lot of money somewhere.[/QUOTE]
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