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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;yakpoo, post: 1283936, member: 18157&quot;]<b>Good questions and points...</b>:thumb:</p><p><br /></p><p><b><span style="color: #000080">1. The 1995 silver proof sets don&#039;t seem to fetch a great premium. They go for $40-50 on ebay</span>.</b></p><p><br /></p><p>True...in fact, I bought a set on eBay just last night for $47. Considering that they contain less than $20 worth of silver, that&#039;s not a bad premium. They used to sell for more, but the market has settled down.</p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: #000080"><b>2. The 1999 silver proof quarters set does still sell for a premium over the other annual state quarter sets.</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #000080"><br /></span></p><p>True again. However, I suspect that&#039;s mostly due to collectors searching for the elusive PF70 UCAM Delaware quarter. Those sets have since settled down from $300/set to around $120/set today.</p><p><br /></p><p><b><span style="color: #000080">3. These low sales numbers might just be the new norm because: a) the&nbsp; economy is terrible (and will continue to be terrible), b) the Mint is&nbsp; producing more and more products, and c) they have been raising prices.</span></b></p><p><br /></p><p>True, true, and true...the only point I might take issue with is the &quot;<b><span style="color: #000080">(and will continue to be terrible)</span></b>&quot; part. It may take 20 years, but eventually we&#039;ll get this mess behind us and prosperity will reign once again (for a while, anyway). </p><p><br /></p><p>That&#039;s the way it&#039;s happened for thousands of years. I don&#039;t buy into the &quot;<b>This time it&#039;s different</b>&quot; mantra. If you look back at the key date coins over the past few hundred years, you&#039;ll see that many of them occurred during times of economic strife...for all the reasons you offer. A hundred years from now our great, great, grandchildren will be saying to themselves...</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;<b>I wish I were alive back then...I could have bought the ultra-rare First Spouse coins on eBay for melt!!!</b>&quot; :rolling:</p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: #000080"><b>4. What kind of indication has the Mint given that the 2011 set sales will end before either a sellout or Dec 2012?</b></span></p><p><br /></p><p>None, really...but they rarely do. What they have said is...</p><p><br /></p><p>1. The 2010 Annual products will remain on sale through December 31, 2011</p><p>2. The 2011 Annual products will go on sale in January 2011.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://news.coinupdate.com/us-mint-to-release-annual-sets-in-january-0491/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://news.coinupdate.com/us-mint-to-release-annual-sets-in-january-0491/" rel="nofollow">http://news.coinupdate.com/us-mint-to-release-annual-sets-in-january-0491/</a></p><p><a href="http://news.coinupdate.com/release-dates-for-proof-set-mint-set-silver-proof-set-0596/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://news.coinupdate.com/release-dates-for-proof-set-mint-set-silver-proof-set-0596/" rel="nofollow">http://news.coinupdate.com/release-dates-for-proof-set-mint-set-silver-proof-set-0596/</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Prior to this, Annual products went on sale in August and went off sale the following August, just prior to the release of the next year&#039;s sets. The 2009 Silver Proof sets went off sale two (2) weeks prior to the 2010 release. This overlap of 2010/2011 sales is likely a one-time event...just to make the transition. </p><p><br /></p><p>The Mint &quot;says&quot; the reason for the switch was to be more responsive to the &quot;Collecting Public&quot;...so they can buy the sets as birthday gifts throughout more of the year. I think the real reason is for &quot;<b>Inventory Control</b>&quot;. I think they got tired of producing a bunch of sets by December 31st in hopes of selling them in the coming year...only to end up destroying the unsold coins. I suspect that&#039;s still a problem with the First Spouse coins. </p><p><br /></p><p>If I&#039;m right and Inventory Control was a factor in their decision to shift schedules, then they would lose any benefit by producing more sets than they can sell in a month...and competing with the new sets. Especially when they rarely overlapped the sets before...just doesn&#039;t make any sense (in my mind, anyway). :too-cool-for:[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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