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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cladking, post: 707025, member: 68&quot;]You&#039;re&nbsp; preaching to the choir here.</p><p><br /></p><p>Most of my cent searches are in mint sets and this is like shooting fish in a barrel compared to roll searching.&nbsp; Of course mint set cents only average much better than others and gems can be extremely elusive here as well.&nbsp; The primary difference is that strikes are much better in the sets on average.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I find it simply remarkable how much the cents and these sets are ignored.&nbsp; There are very few opportunities in any US or world coins to put together gem sets on the cheap yet here is one that people just pass by as every year more of these sets disappear to attrition caused by misadventure and to dealers cutting them up for singles.&nbsp; Many of the gems are really quite common but collectors can&#039;t even be troubled to search for them.&nbsp; about 10% of 1994P cents in the sets are superb gems.&nbsp; 1% are also highly Proof Like yet these go begging.&nbsp; The cost of the set is quite nominal which makes the cent almost free and they languish in dealer stock.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>This situation won&#039;t last forever.&nbsp; There is demand for high grades which eats up some sets and the number of sets just keeps dropping.&nbsp; Eventually there just won&#039;t be enough sets even to satisfy the demand for singles and then these markets will change.&nbsp; This is already happening with a few of the early dates.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>About 95% of the 1968-P cents in the sets are ugly and corroded.&nbsp; All have carbon spots.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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