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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;SilverWilliesCoinsdotcom, post: 2894248, member: 86795&quot;]I&#039;m on the fence. When I was very young, I thought that Proof Sets (1964 and prior in the old style brown envelopes) were just about the coolest thing. But I was never able to afford them. Now, MANY years later, I&#039;ve had a number of them, sold some off, gotten a few more, I have three left. They no longer have the same charm for me and I&#039;m looking to use them to trade up on something else, no idea what. </p><p><br /></p><p>Question. Might I be better off, get more for them by cutting them up and selling or trading the individual coins, keeping them in their individual original cello of course? I&#039;m in no hurry to sell them. Or should I just offer them in whole, original packaging? It&#039;s not like the difference can be all that much, they go for only a bit more than 20 bucks last time I looked, but one part of me thinks it&#039;s semi-sacrilege to butcher them, then again, I&#039;d be doing someone a favor by making individual coins available to the population for them to complete their collection. </p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s definitely not the money, but the principle. Then I wonder, might any of the individual coins be worth slabbing? My eyes are not educated enough to make the call, and if any were, I&#039;d then probably want to hang on to them. </p><p><br /></p><p>You know? I just answered my own questions. They&#039;re not making these any more, and I&#039;m gonna hang on to them, cause they ARE still cool now that I think of it. My question now is, was writing this a waste of my time? And was posting it a waste of yours? I think no to both. It made me remember why I collect these sometimes shiny round things to begin with, which is something complicated and intangible that I can&#039;t explain, except that, well...</p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s cool. And no, they&#039;re not for sale.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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