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<p>[QUOTE="jwa_jwa_jwa, post: 785463, member: 22516"]I understand what your're saying. But it is not impossible to make some money on some of these coins. For example, the Lincoln silver dollars, Chronicle sets and even the Mint proof sets sell above issue price. I even bought the 2009 Platinum Proof eagle and made a nice couple hundred dollars on the sale.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now I am not implying that this is a goldmine but I would hazzard to guess that in 2016, there will be more than a handful of people who will have missed out on the entire series. To take it a step further, I would submit that a percentage of those folks will be interested in purchasing the entire set for themselves, their kids or to hand down to their grandkids.</p><p><br /></p><p>I just saw the Coin Vault the other day at 12 midnight claiming that the government was running out of Presidential dollars. Meanwhile, the truth is there are huge stockpiles of the coins in bank vaults enough to last 10 years. So is there a market for this sort of thing --- by collecting these coins I am betting there will be an opportunity. Could I be 100% wrong? certainly.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="jwa_jwa_jwa, post: 785463, member: 22516"]I understand what your're saying. But it is not impossible to make some money on some of these coins. For example, the Lincoln silver dollars, Chronicle sets and even the Mint proof sets sell above issue price. I even bought the 2009 Platinum Proof eagle and made a nice couple hundred dollars on the sale. Now I am not implying that this is a goldmine but I would hazzard to guess that in 2016, there will be more than a handful of people who will have missed out on the entire series. To take it a step further, I would submit that a percentage of those folks will be interested in purchasing the entire set for themselves, their kids or to hand down to their grandkids. I just saw the Coin Vault the other day at 12 midnight claiming that the government was running out of Presidential dollars. Meanwhile, the truth is there are huge stockpiles of the coins in bank vaults enough to last 10 years. So is there a market for this sort of thing --- by collecting these coins I am betting there will be an opportunity. Could I be 100% wrong? certainly.[/QUOTE]
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