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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;yakpoo, post: 1334807, member: 18157&quot;]<font size="3">Well, this is it...less than 24 hours to go before we crown a new <i><b>Key Date Silver Proof set Champion!! </b></i>This will be like the San Francisco 49ers winning the SuperBowl again (the last year they won was 1995!). By this time tomorrow it will be all over but the crying.</font>:so-sad:<font size="3">Then we&#039;ll have to see if the 2010 sets can defend its position against the 2011 sets.</font></p><p><br /></p><p><font size="3">This year saw the &quot;<i><b>Perfect Storm</b></i>&quot; of events. The Mint&#039;s shifted its schedule causing an overlap of two (2) of the same Mint Silver Proof products. Bizarre economic conditions also pushed the price of these products up over 15% throughout the year. Silver price volatility </font><font size="3">resulted in the suspension of Silver Proof set sales three (3) times </font><font size="3">while the Mint released all sorts of new silver products to compete for the shrinking Collector dollar. ...and shrink it did.</font> <font size="3">Plummeting home prices, record unemployment, pay freezes, and rising food and energy prices just made matters worse. </font></p><p><br /></p><p><font size="3">I hear some folks rationalize this event away as the &quot;New Normal&quot; for US Mint Silver Proof set sales. They say these sets will never sell over 600,000 again. <i><b>I strenuously disagree.</b></i> Even with all the bizarre conditions these sets endured over the past year, the two sets combined sold well over 1,000,000. I think this was a one (1) year aberration the likes of which may never be seen again!! </font>:hail:</p><p><font size="3">Although, I have to admit, with the falling price of silver, it may be some time before the true potential of these sets is realized.</font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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