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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cladking, post: 3988599, member: 68&quot;]These sets are treated with great abandon by the market but someday this won&#039;t be true.&nbsp; It won&#039;t be true for exactly the reasons NPCoin listed.&nbsp; The coins often are available nowhere else (where are you going to find a &#039;73-D quarter or a proof dime?) but the sets are unloved and unwanted.&nbsp; Countless millions of these coins are cut out of mint sets every year and put into circulation.&nbsp; While the wholesale demand is still small I&#039;ve watched it ratchet higher every year for decades and the day will come that the rapidly falling supply is tiny compared to the slowly increasing demand.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Modern collecting and markets are wholly dissimilar to older coins.&nbsp; Year after year there is a fairly steady supply of bust half dollars and when prices rise there are more collections sold.&nbsp; Where will the supply be for &#039;73-D quarters?&nbsp; These were spent and the majority of those in collections were pushed into folders and stored in basements or desk drawers.&nbsp; Many will have been spent or otherwise degraded.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I believe that higher prices will have very little effect on being able to acquire these coins.&nbsp; If (as) prices rise collectors will take notice and more will desire their own collections.</p><p><br /></p><p>This might not happen for many years yet and higher prices are bringing sets out of the woodwork now but I believe once the supplies of dealers is exhausted there will be few more to satisfy this new demand.&nbsp; I&#039;d be surprised if the aggregate number of mint sets in dealer inventory exceeds about 10,000 of each date and some dates a lot fewer.&nbsp; These are paltry numbers in a country with 320,000,000 people in it and tens of million collecting coins.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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