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Message:: [QUOTE="Clinker, post: 153326, member: 6229"]The problem with these sets are they are not coins minted for circulation sets.  Nor are they collector's proof sets of any coins minted for circulation. There are not enough collectors interested in coins and/or sets minted only for profit.   You mention commemorative coins of the past and, in the same breath,modern commemoratives. It took many years to garner coin collector's interest in the early commemoratives.  Take a long look at the modern commemorative silver halves', silver dollars' and gold pieces' mintages from 1982 to present.Only a very few have reached the values that the same regular minted coins have achieved at the same mintages. Every once-in-a-while a coin comes a long that has a great nostalgic interest such as the Marine Corp silver dollars, the Ben Franklin silver and gold coins and the gold buffaloes.  At first there is a great demand, the prices go up fast, but within months (sometimes weeks), interest dwindles and prices drop.[/QUOTE]