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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;krispy, post: 1495354, member: 19065&quot;]What&#039;s funny about your opinion here is that it quite succinctly helps to expose that many collectors care less about what the concept of the set was created to celebrate, 75 years of the SF Mint at it&#039;s current location of operations. It appears to be more about people obtaining what is perceived a unique, limited and hardly low mintage coin that many assume should be regarded as valuable amongst the collecting community and therefore profitable in the aftermarket. All that popular sentiment about collecting coins for the history they represent and so on takes a back seat to consumerism and lusting after profiting from something, which is particularly poignant when one considers this is an attempt to profit off collectible coins, notably when these were sold, &quot;minted to demand&quot; (suggesting demand has already been satisfied, killing profits sought) and now undermined by the Mint itself selling one of the two coins in another product offering before you can even get them in hand. </p><p><br /></p><p>The only prices it&#039;s not going to affect are those pre-sales that you see posted by people buying them for more than they just sold retail direct from the Mint at inflated prices. It is amazing to see people saying they don&#039;t care about a coin from this set conceived for and about the SF Mint. The RP coins are weak examples when compared to the 2006 issues, which preceded the newer laser etch frosting effect which is haphazardly applied to devices and blanket coats the finer lines and details which used to make these proofs a beautiful coin before 2009/10 when it was starting to appear on all proof coins from the US Mint. Collectors skew these beliefs in what to value in any manner of subjective ways, but the Mint really undermines the hobby and shot a hole in a fairly decent offering, yet again.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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