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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cladking, post: 2331541, member: 68&quot;]It&#039;s very difficult to&nbsp; put away Gem clad.&nbsp; It&#039;s not all that scarce but it&#039;s scarce enough to take a lot of shoe leather and some real work.&nbsp; Back in the &#039;80&#039;s I could walk into almost any coiin shop in the country and ask to go through their mint sets.&nbsp; Stores averaged about 100 sets in stock and it wasn&#039;t too uncommon to encounter up to 1000.&nbsp; They&#039;d let me do it because I&#039;d fix their sets for them.&nbsp; I&#039;d be sure each package had the correct coins and I&#039;d buy sets without envelopes or with torn ones so all their sets would be right when I was done.&nbsp; I also paid a little premium for what I bought.&nbsp; Typically there would be only about 20 Gems in their sets in about 15 packages which I mixed and matched to make about 12 complete sets.&nbsp; I was very fast and I could do it in about twenty minutes and it was off to the next shop or a local bank to get rolls or bags. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>As hard as it was then it&#039;s much harder now because the typical shop might have only two or three Gems and you might not even be allowed to search for them.&nbsp; It&#039;s still fun to look for them but each year there are fewer and fewer sets and the Gems are farther and farther between. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>A lot of people over the years have said to set these aside but there haven&#039;t been many actually doing it so the coins are going to be tougher than most imagine.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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