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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;19Lyds, post: 1235470, member: 15929&quot;]My advice...............shop first......then buy or you&#039;ll end up with second rate sets. COA and all. There are some good sets out there and it seems that each year or series has some weird quirks.</p><p><br /></p><p>Some cloud up, some tone up, and some are just honked up. Some are sealed well while others not so well. Some have great coins while others have not so great coins since no two proofs are made the same way.</p><p><br /></p><p>Some have extremely high mintages yet others rediculously low mintages.</p><p>Some are silver coins while others have copper nickel clad coins which command majorly different prices.</p><p><br /></p><p>Be VERY careful of 1999 to Date Silver Proof Sets since &quot;some&quot; unscrupulous individuals out there will open them (they are not sealed and are easily taken apart), replace the silver coins with their clad counterparts, and then sell them as silver.</p><p>Be VERY, VERY Careful.</p><p><br /></p><p>from my own experience, the more time you spend &quot;studying&quot; what you buy, the better off you will be.</p><p><br /></p><p>Good Luck and Welcome to the Whacky World of Coin Collecting![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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