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<p>[QUOTE="NPCoin, post: 3988183, member: 5629"]Most certainly I would buy them up until I could buy no more. You make two points:</p><ol> <li>You do not collect them</li> <li>You are looking for return value</li> </ol><p>Even taking into consideration those two points, you cannot lose in obtaining NCLT at face value. At worst, you deposit/spend the coins for returned value and are possibly left with reusable containers to store coins you do collect or could even resell to add value to your "investment".</p><p><br /></p><p>You do not have to see a "ton of value" for something to hold value. Many people do not see value in these issued sets because they are looking for a quick flip investment and/or do not quite understand that we should be preserving these specimens for posterity.</p><p><br /></p><p>Although these sets may be in abundance now and for the near future, that is not always going to be the case. These sets are regularly broken apart for a particular higher grade specimen to be sent off for entombment. Sometimes they are broken apart to fill folders and albums. Sometimes they are broken apart for need of immediate spendable money (or by ignorant family members looking for some quick cash).</p><p><br /></p><p>Just today, I grabbed a number of half dollar rolls and sitting at one end of a roll is a nice proof staring me in the face. This coin originally was inside one of those government issued plastic containers. So how did it get into a circulation roll? Why are there so many high grade examples of business strikes and proofs entombed in sealed plastic? It's because these original government packages are being broken apart.</p><p><br /></p><p>Even if these OGP sets never see "tons of value", they are still historical specimens that attest to the technology, marketing, and aesthetics used by our mint in presenting them to the public of today.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="NPCoin, post: 3988183, member: 5629"]Most certainly I would buy them up until I could buy no more. You make two points: [LIST=1] [*]You do not collect them [*]You are looking for return value [/LIST] Even taking into consideration those two points, you cannot lose in obtaining NCLT at face value. At worst, you deposit/spend the coins for returned value and are possibly left with reusable containers to store coins you do collect or could even resell to add value to your "investment". You do not have to see a "ton of value" for something to hold value. Many people do not see value in these issued sets because they are looking for a quick flip investment and/or do not quite understand that we should be preserving these specimens for posterity. Although these sets may be in abundance now and for the near future, that is not always going to be the case. These sets are regularly broken apart for a particular higher grade specimen to be sent off for entombment. Sometimes they are broken apart to fill folders and albums. Sometimes they are broken apart for need of immediate spendable money (or by ignorant family members looking for some quick cash). Just today, I grabbed a number of half dollar rolls and sitting at one end of a roll is a nice proof staring me in the face. This coin originally was inside one of those government issued plastic containers. So how did it get into a circulation roll? Why are there so many high grade examples of business strikes and proofs entombed in sealed plastic? It's because these original government packages are being broken apart. Even if these OGP sets never see "tons of value", they are still historical specimens that attest to the technology, marketing, and aesthetics used by our mint in presenting them to the public of today.[/QUOTE]
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