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Message:: [QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 63957, member: 112"]If you visited a coin show you'd find literally thousands of the sets available and the vast majority would be priced under $10. There are a few things that people who have only been collecting for 4 or 5 years are not aware of. One of them is that as a general rule, mint sets and Proof sets do not increase in value very often. In fact many of them decrease in value. Some even sell for less than issue price from the mint. But because the coin market has been bullish ( increasing prices ) for the past 4 or 5 years - and for the first time since 1989; many collectors mistakenly have the idea that these past few years are typical of the way the coin market works. That includes mint & Proof sets that increase in value almost immediately. Nothing could be further from the truth.[/QUOTE]