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<p>[QUOTE="onecenter, post: 1906953, member: 8703"]Very helpful and enlightening information. Thank you.</p><p><br /></p><p>I buy proof sets for my collecting enjoyment, not to increase wealth. It has been proven over the past 60+ years that modern American proof coins of circulating designs issued since 1950 are purely a numismatic endeavor and not for wealth transfer purposes, silver coins exempted, of course. They have a precious metal premium, at minimum.</p><p><br /></p><p>For collectors such as myself that started buying proof sets in 1960s and 1970s, there were so few choices to collect premium examples of coinage that the annual proof sets and uncirculated sets were basically, it, nothing else available. There was no bullion, no commemoratives, no .900 fine silver dollars, even. Mintages were high and resale garners almost no premium, with only isolated examples.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="onecenter, post: 1906953, member: 8703"]Very helpful and enlightening information. Thank you. I buy proof sets for my collecting enjoyment, not to increase wealth. It has been proven over the past 60+ years that modern American proof coins of circulating designs issued since 1950 are purely a numismatic endeavor and not for wealth transfer purposes, silver coins exempted, of course. They have a precious metal premium, at minimum. For collectors such as myself that started buying proof sets in 1960s and 1970s, there were so few choices to collect premium examples of coinage that the annual proof sets and uncirculated sets were basically, it, nothing else available. There was no bullion, no commemoratives, no .900 fine silver dollars, even. Mintages were high and resale garners almost no premium, with only isolated examples.[/QUOTE]
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