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Message:: [QUOTE="19Lyds, post: 2326569, member: 15929"]Modern Mint Sets (1965-today), regardless of OGP, simply have zero upside. None.20 years. 30 Years. 40 years. It simply does not matter. Those folks that collect mint sets/proof sets in OGP will find out what I am saying when they go to sell their collections. Now, for the beginning coin collector with a simple goal of collecting 1 or 2 of each set ever made, it's a great goal! But, having a "great goal" is simply NOT going to increase the value of what has been collected. Primarily because it's the "individual's" goal, not the collecting communities goal. For example, I have a goal of collecting a complete set of Kennedy Half Dollars from circulation. Is it a good or great goal? Sure. Will the collection have any appreciable value? Probably not. I entertained a similar "Mint Set Collecting" goal beginning in the early 80's which was well before the Internet and TPG's and Coin Forums. 30 years later, the money I had spent on my collection was all but lost when I resold what I had collected. NONE of the sets appreciated at all and most (the non-silver sets) actually declined in value over what I had paid. It is a very hard lesson to learn and IMO, OGP is a very, very small tick on the actual value scale. Do it because you like to do it but understand that they will not appreciate in value and as such will be really, really poor investments in term of money, Not in terms of time.[/QUOTE]