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Message:: [QUOTE="dollarcoins4fun, post: 458410, member: 12109"]Silver vs. Clad Proof Sets GDJMSP, I have learned a lot from your posts. I like your idea of going thru local dealers and establishing a repore' with them and bypassing Ebay. That article you gave me was key. WOW! No wonder the 2001 sets are so expensive on Ebay. You can't find them for under a 100 dollars each now (Silver). Some people are asking up to $400.00 dollars for the Silver sets (2001). Here's a quote from this article you posted: "The Mint held back 150,000 Proof sets each from 1999, 2000 and 2001 in a scheduled plan. Officials wanted to offer them to collectors who may have missed the initial offerings and to new collectors wanting to get into the hobby after collecting the State quarter dollars and wanting to start from the beginning, according to Pickens." My question for you is, if the U.S. Mint is holding back 150,000 sets for collectors to play catch up who came into it late (That's me) when do you think they will be offering those three years? Hawaii is it for the 50 state quarters. Could the Territories be the key? I noticed that the U.S. Mint opens the vault from time to time (i.e. 2001 Kennedy Half dollars). Could these sets 1999, 2000, & 2001 not be that far off?  Can you also tell me some other items that the U.S. Mint brought out of the vault recently? Thanks.[/QUOTE]