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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cladking, post: 1376094, member: 68&quot;]I&#039;m in complete agreement generally but no agreement specifically.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Don&#039;t buy any coins for investment but people have been telling me for 40 years that mint and proof sets are a terrible investment and I&#039;ve bought them anyway.&nbsp; Now there are world mint and proof sets going up twenty to one hundred fold annually.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>The reason is exactly what I&#039;ve been saying for decades; most moderns are scarce or rare and even more are in choice condition.&nbsp; They made a few thousand of most dates of Indian proof sets and tens of thousands of most world mint sets.&nbsp; But these sets have suffered tremendous attrition because they have been spectacularly cheap.&nbsp; People quit saving new coins decades ago and this happened all over the world.&nbsp; For many dates there are no mint sets at all and in most cases mint set mintages are low and attrition high.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>The ONLY reason moderns were and are cheap is that there is so little demand.&nbsp; Now that demand is ratcheting up in the home countries the prices are exploding.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>It will come to US coins eventually in all probability.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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