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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cladking, post: 619785, member: 68&quot;]There are a lot of sets that get busted up this way.&nbsp; It&#039;s not just the shops but collectors experience the same thing when a coin tarnishes in the set or the plastic is broken.&nbsp; Sometimes they&#039;ll just need one coin.&nbsp; No doubt millions of sets have been destroyed this way; one or two or twenty at a time.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>But when you see a bid for proof rolls in the Greysheet this is for nice clean rolls and most of these rolls are made up with many hundreds (or thousands) of sets at a time.&nbsp; There isn&#039;t anything especially unusual about the sets but they will have fewer of the really rare coins than average because the sets they recieve are often picked over for these.&nbsp; Where a variety might normally show up in every thousand sets these might need two thousand to see this variety.&nbsp; They usually won&#039;t be heavily picked over for gems though since many dealers still don&#039;t look for these.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>There&#039;s a perception that the mint and proof sets on the market are heavily picked over and this generally isn&#039;t true.&nbsp; The reason it isn&#039;t true is largely simply that these sets are getting busted up on a regular basis. Bad sets don&#039;t have a chance to accumulate on the market before they end up being destroyed.&nbsp; Obviously this doesn&#039;t apply equally to everything and all dates.&nbsp; For instance unattributed &#039;70-S sm dt cents are getting very few and far between whether unc or proof in sets.&nbsp; These are still being found but the first dealer who gets them will probably spot it so they don&#039;t end up on &quot;the cutting room&quot;.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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