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<p>[QUOTE="johnmilton, post: 24556158, member: 101855"]You might consider buying the mint stuff in the secondary market. You might have to wait a few years, but you might also save some money. The least I paid for anything was the Statue Liberty six piece set, Proof and Unc., for $165 in the wooden box. At the peak, that set sold for $850. </p><p><br /></p><p>The mint is charging top dollar these days and putting their stuff in cheap, tacky packaging. Their probable rationale is that most collectors are slabbing the stuff. I have very few slabbed modern mint coins. I used to like the mint packaging before they switched to junk.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="johnmilton, post: 24556158, member: 101855"]You might consider buying the mint stuff in the secondary market. You might have to wait a few years, but you might also save some money. The least I paid for anything was the Statue Liberty six piece set, Proof and Unc., for $165 in the wooden box. At the peak, that set sold for $850. The mint is charging top dollar these days and putting their stuff in cheap, tacky packaging. Their probable rationale is that most collectors are slabbing the stuff. I have very few slabbed modern mint coins. I used to like the mint packaging before they switched to junk.[/QUOTE]
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