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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cladking, post: 428379, member: 68&quot;]Krause is nearly worthless for pricing and other information </p><p>on many moderns and most modern mint sets. A lot of the</p><p>modern mint sets are made by contractors or central banks</p><p>and these are rarely listed by Krause.&nbsp; None of the &quot;private-</p><p>ly&quot; packaged sets are listed even though many of these ap-</p><p>pear to obviously have been supplied by the mint for this </p><p>purpose.</p><p><br /></p><p>Just because they don&#039;t list a mint set doesn&#039;t mean they do</p><p>not exist.&nbsp; Indeed, there may be different types as well.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Their pricing for moderns has never kept up with the real world</p><p>and this last year there was almost no attempt.&nbsp; Modern pric-</p><p>ing is exploding in Europe and many other places but there were</p><p>almost no changes in the latest catalog.&nbsp; This is great if you can</p><p>find the coins and sets in dealer stock since you might get it for</p><p>next to nothing but it makes it impossible to compete with Euro-</p><p>peans who know what the coins are really worth.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I would not suggest anyone buy any of these coins for investment.</p><p>While they are wonderful collectibles the fact is that these high </p><p>prices are new and it&#039;s still not impossible that there might be quanti-</p><p>ties in existence.&nbsp; I say this not because the coins were made in huge</p><p>numbers which is what detractors normally have in mind but because </p><p>they are relatively new they are still within the lifetime of many liv-</p><p>ing people.&nbsp; In the past it was necessary for many people to have </p><p>a few coins for large numbers to exist but in modern times it&#039;s poss-</p><p>ible for an individual to have large quantities.&nbsp; Go slow, have fun </p><p>collecting and the prices will take care of themselves over time. Now </p><p>days coins are scarce because virtually no one saved any at all.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>It might be this fear of hoards making Krause drag their feet on pri-</p><p>cing.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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