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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cladking, post: 3174270, member: 68&quot;]Proof sets have proven relatively stable so far.&nbsp; Pennies are often ruined but other coins for the main part are OK.&nbsp;&nbsp; They may or may not prove suitable for longer term storage but so far all the ones in hard plastic are &quot;good enough&quot;.&nbsp;&nbsp; The SMS are a little worse but the coins mostly just haze and this can usually be corrected.&nbsp; Older sets in soft plastic are hit and miss and should probably be removed or put into ideal storage conditions.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>The mint took vary little concern for purchasers.&nbsp; In their defense they might not have known how bad the mint set packaging was.&nbsp;&nbsp; They did finally tweak the packaging in &#039;81 and then switch to something more stable in &#039;84 with even better in &#039;85.&nbsp; &#039;85 and later sets are rarely affected but they probably still aren&#039;t suitable for long term storage.&nbsp;&nbsp; Young people should be reminded that the &quot;long term&quot; comes much faster than their&nbsp; expectations and much more slowly than their plans.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m heartsick about the coins I&#039;ve lost.&nbsp; I thought saving coins for the future would be a laudable goal and then I allowed them to be ruined.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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