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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;johnmilton, post: 4518125, member: 101855&quot;]With the Mint it&#039;s either feast or famine. From time I started as a collector in 1960 until 1975, there were only two totally new coins, the Kennedy Half Dollar and the Eisenhower Dollar. There was the clad coinage, but for most collectors, it wasn’t very interesting and the government was forced to issue it because silver could not be used in coinage. It was not issued to please collectors, in fact quite the opposite at first.</p><p><br /></p><p>Then in 1975-6, there was the Bicentennial coinage which was a legitimate celebration. Then in 1982, there was the Washington Half Dollar, which looked innocent enough.</p><p><br /></p><p>Then dam broke and we started to be flooded with commemorative coins starting with the 1984 LA Olympics. It cost hundreds, then thousands and now tens of thousands of dollars to keep up with what the mint was issuing.</p><p><br /></p><p>The only solution to this foolishness is for the collector to “Just say NO!!!” which is what I’m doing. One silver Proof set a year, and that’s it. No price gouging worries from dealers and flippers who corner the market. Just ignore them. You don’t need the trash.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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