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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;bhp3rd, post: 484025, member: 16510&quot;]<b>Proof and Mint sets are sooo soft but what are the sleepers?</b></p><p><br /></p><p>Most all dealers I have asked in the last month say this is the softest price on Mint and Proof sets they have ever seen.&nbsp; That some of them in the south are only paying 25% to 35% back of bid in hopes the customer will walk away it true - that&#039;s the bad news - the good news is once they go this far down they can only recover from here - when, I do not know but probably as the market corrects they will eventually recover.</p><p>The mint has not done us any favors though so much so that nothing but a handful of items are really considered worth a premium now.</p><p>The ones that come to mind are the fractional gold pieces of this past year - the little 10th&#039;s, halves and quarters ought to perform well and I think next years Lincoln comems should do very well indeed.</p><p>But nothing the mint has made in the last ten years will out perform a 27-s quarter in VF-35 or a 12-S nickel in the same grade nor should they - these are rare coins and they deserve our respect.&nbsp; I just wish I had not sold mine, &quot;oh well, it&#039;s only money&quot;.</p><p>Other coins I thnk have a lot of room to go higher are, both flying eagle cents in VF-30 or better, the 1859 also, the mint marked late teens Lincolns in XF original, Buffalos in the same years/grades and. (I&#039;m really going out on a limb here) - all Lincoln Memorials in gem grades.&nbsp; I have been working with them for 10 years now and many are tough esp. if you try to put together a roll or multiples.&nbsp; To find certain dates are impossible to I do so, I think these coins will go much, much higher.</p><p>Ben Peters, (home of The Knoxville Coin Show)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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