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Message:: [QUOTE="saltysam-1, post: 2409288, member: 23368"]I have completed half dollar Franklins ( The dealer that bought them said it was the best set he has seen in a few years). He paid my asking price on both proof and business strikes. I remember buying the entire 1950 proof set just to get the half dollar. Lets just say it was over $1000. I also sold my complete set, not a short set, of half dollar Walking Liberty coins. No vam's, just the normal years and mint strikes. Only two were exceptional. All my Morgan set dates were sold as well. I saved the CC mint dates I liked. The only mint sets I now save are the silver proofs. I have a crap load of junk from the other years the mint offered business and circulation strikes. I will probably bust them out and spend them as regular coins. I will gladly sell them to CT members first in the proper forum. This more than anything caused me to stop buying from the mint and also changed my view on modern currency. I hate laser etching of dies. I have many old classic pieces but nothing close to sets. (Excluding short run coins.) It seems when I finally complete a set, I end up selling it in a year or two. Why? The chase is over and to me, that's the most exciting part to collecting. I also have a limit to what I plan to invest in coins, and I take the money from one collection and start the chase in another.[/QUOTE]