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Message:: [QUOTE="Ethan, post: 1916460, member: 68800"]Agreed, but most do not even really know about them. There are cherry pickers for sure but as time goes on, the rare factor gets even more obvious. The book goes into more detail. One of the things I remember is that "somewhere around 90% of SMS sets have been gone through by dealers looking to pick these out". I tend to believe that and have noticed on some of my bids on Feebay, that others notice also. I have got lucky on a few, but I am not the only one looking. I have had better luck just buying the sets at coin stores. SP67 and up are BIG bucks for sure, SP68's being the top of the range for SMS and extremely rare. I have not seen any real figures other than the book above but lets say for giggles that 0.1 % would get DCAM and 0.5% would get CAM. I am not sure of those numbers and they might be double that but still. With mintages in the 2-3 million range, and less than 50 in SP68 DCAM, that is rare. Yeah I do the same and that is why I am trying to learn what is the difference between a 65/66/67/68. I have some slabbed but no 68 and I can not use my 1964's as they were proofs. These coins are totally different. I will buy DCAM SP65 coins all day for the right price but those are salty also depending on contrast.[/QUOTE]