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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cladking, post: 59597, member: 68&quot;]Most dealers do bust them up and a lot of proof and mint sets have been</p><p>destroyed this way.&nbsp; The big dealers will sometimes bust 1,000&#039;s of a sin-</p><p>gle date or several dates.&nbsp; I&#039;ve actually seen bag sets of all proof set de-</p><p>nominations.&nbsp; A bag set is 4,000 quarters of each date.&nbsp; (5,000 cents etc).</p><p><br /></p><p>One dealer bragged that he alone had busted more than ten percent of the</p><p>mintage of a one year old proof set.&nbsp; One hears rumors of dealers who fill </p><p>dumpsters with the debris from these sets.&nbsp; This has been going on for many</p><p>years and the coins fron the sets are often very inexpensive and are either </p><p>put into circulation or sold to less experienced collectors.&nbsp; Before 1995 about </p><p>the only retail buyers of such coins were very inexperienced about coins.&nbsp; One</p><p>has to suspect that they coins have not fared well over the years.&nbsp; Proof sets</p><p>actually got as cheap as about 160% of face value in the mid-&#039;90&#039;s and many </p><p>of the mint sets actually wholesaled for less than face value.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>If collectors ever seek these coins in large numbers the coins will simply not be</p><p>there in many cases.&nbsp; There are very few rolls of most moderns (other than cents) </p><p>and the mint and proof set populations have been decimated by dealers and col-</p><p>lectors.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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