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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cladking, post: 157508, member: 68&quot;]My estimates could be pretty low.&nbsp; In the old days you could go to a medium size show and fill a truck with all the proof sets that were there and now you&#039;d be lucky to find 200 sets.&nbsp; A lot of these sets go to &quot;big buyers&quot; and a large percentage of these will be busted up.&nbsp; The others will be retailed.&nbsp; If you look at what comes into coin shops you&#039;ll see most of the sets coming in are from people who bought them from the government or shortly after issue on the secondary market.&nbsp; This would imply that pretty few are retailed so it should be largely a function of the average age of the purchasers when each set was issued.&nbsp; For instance many buyers in the early &#039;70&#039;s were mid 30&#039;s to mid 50&#039;s.&nbsp; Thirty years later most of the older buyers have already had their estates sold and the younger ones are at an age that many would have retired and probably sold.&nbsp; This might mean that higher percentages than I suggested are gone.&nbsp; You can tell when a lot of sets are being busted up because you&#039;ll hear of people finding some of the coins in circulation right aster the value of the coins in the set has exceeded the price of the set.&nbsp; I&#039;ve found many of these proofs myself including a worn out &#039;68-S quarter back in 1997. </p><p><br /></p><p>You can also look and see what&#039;s available in the shops though and you won&#039;t see a dramatic difference in the numbers of the older and more recent sets.&nbsp; Lower mintages for recent years alone won&#039;t explain this discrepancy.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Mint sets seem a little more tranparent to me because I&#039;ve watched them more closely and much longer.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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