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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bill in Burl, post: 1165686, member: 23692&quot;]The Mint has a great sales program and a large ready inventory of most anything that you want.&nbsp; The only problem is &quot;price&quot;&nbsp; You can pick up almost any Mint product, through Coin Shows or mail/internet orders, for 50-70% of the issue price.&nbsp; The mint sells only at the issue price or higher.&nbsp; I would estimate that over 90% of all the non-circulating legal tender coins that the Mint issues or HAS issued, immediately fal in price rapidly, so they are at nearly 50% of issue after 3 years.&nbsp; That has not held true for silver issues, only because the price of the base metal has escalated so much.&nbsp; All silver issues will sell for essentially scrap silver price.&nbsp; There have previously been some great wildlife issues, including owls and eagles, etc .. I think in the 50 cent series&#039;.&nbsp; Check J&amp;M or Gatewest to see what their prices are for anything to do with the MInt.&nbsp; As a last resort, pay the Mint price from them.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here is an Ebay auction (secondary market) for the 50 cent set: <a href="http://cgi.ebay.com/2000-STERLING-SILVER-50-CENT-4-COIN-SET-BIRDS-PROOF-/270739485310?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_2&amp;hash=item3f0954b27e" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://cgi.ebay.com/2000-STERLING-SILVER-50-CENT-4-COIN-SET-BIRDS-PROOF-/270739485310?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_2&amp;hash=item3f0954b27e" rel="nofollow">http://cgi.ebay.com/2000-STERLING-SILVER-50-CENT-4-COIN-SET-BIRDS-PROOF-/270739485310?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_2&amp;hash=item3f0954b27e</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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