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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cladking, post: 618798, member: 68&quot;]It&#039;s the obvious answer but the wrong conclusion.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Most of these rolls are generated by the big wholesalers who buy huge quantities of sets usually at a premium to bid.&nbsp; Some even used machinery to break up the sets.&nbsp; I&#039;ve actually seen entire roll bags of proof coins.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Many people assume these are lower quality than proof set coins still in the set but this isn&#039;t true.&nbsp; Since most of these coins are destined for retail they will pull out and spend all the substandard coins which can account for nearly 10% of mintage in some instances.&nbsp; Of course they also remove the top one or two percent for slabbing so you won&#039;t be getting any MS-70&#039;s in rolls either.&nbsp; The average quality is actually higher than proof set coins.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>This is the source of most of the proof coins seen in circulation.&nbsp; Usually the dates you see is a proof set which just dropped in value to a price that&#039;s lower than the sum total of the coins in it.&nbsp; When this happens this date will recieve more busting than most other dates.&nbsp; You&#039;ll very rarely see a date where the set is worth more than its parts.&nbsp; When you do it&#039;s usually because a collector cut a set for a specific coin or one inadvertantly got into circulation.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>But the vast majority of the proofs in circulation were spent intentionally by wholesalers or collectors.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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