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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cladking, post: 682062, member: 68&quot;]There&#039;s a problem with the junkyard analogy; you can&#039;t take your Cadillac to the junk yard in a million pieces and sell it for more but you can a mint or proof set.&nbsp; The junk dealers would probably pay less if it&#039;s already dismantled but he certainly won&#039;t buy it as a collection of brand new spare parts.&nbsp; The wholesale price of the set is often lower than the wholesale price of the coins in it.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>If you&#039;re buying these as an &quot;investment&quot; though you should be aware that wholesalers won&#039;t take poor coins.&nbsp; Most coins in mint sets aren&#039;t affected by this since even the worst are usually good enough but some coins like the &#039;76 type I Ike is so bad that half won&#039;t cut the muster. </p><p><br /></p><p>Buyers should also be aware that collectors will always value the coins individually so will look at these sets as a collection of parts.&nbsp; If the coins are mediocre so too will be the price.&nbsp; There will likely be a premium for intact sets at some point in time and this could persist for years but this premium might be smaller than the premium for nice coins.&nbsp; Imagine a really fantastic set with all gems in it! The premium on such a set could be significant.&nbsp; The nicer the coins in a set the higher the probability it will be cut up and this will still be true when there&#039;s a set premium.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Yes.&nbsp; Very large percentages of some of these sets have been destroyed.&nbsp; No one loves them so they just end up going to wholesalers who are not kind to them.&nbsp; Many of the coins end up in circulation because they are so cheap or are culls.&nbsp; Some dealers just use the coins regardless of quality to make change in their shops because the premium is so low it&#039;s not worth shipping.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Over the decades vast numbers have been destroyed.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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