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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cladking, post: 14195667, member: 68&quot;]It&#039;s more complex than simply a comparison of mint set availability to the demand for mint sets.&nbsp; This is largely the result of two factors; more importantly most of the demand is for individual coins to be sold at retail and most of the supply is tarnished. </p><p><br /></p><p>Fewer than 30% of some dates survive but one or two coins in them are in great demand.&nbsp; As collectors are picking off sets and the flow to wholesalers is being choked off we&#039;re finding that even at this very late date the only supply for most moderns is mint sets.&nbsp; This means supplies are not being augmented by modern collections coming into coin shops because there are so few.&nbsp; There aren&#039;t stashes of rolls and bags of clads or even all of the cents and nickels. </p><p><br /></p><p>So far the problem is strictly wholesale availability of Ikes and half dollars but, I believe, this is going to spread as the stigma of collecting moderns goes away.</p><p><br /></p><p>Higher prices are not serving to preserve sets very well because singles still are the source of demand.&nbsp; Plus many sets have tarnished so badly they can not be sold and will be dismantled for the face value.&nbsp; The biggest difference now is that most of the nice coins from cut up sets are being saved instead of spent as they were in the past. </p><p><br /></p><p>Eventually a multi-tier market will arise for mint sets to differentiate the garbage from retail friendly to choice/ Gem sets.&nbsp; People will be amazed by the huge spread in these tiers.&nbsp; Bear in mind however that I don&#039;t intend to be involved in the sale of intact mint sets.&nbsp; I saved the finest 20 of every date I ever encountered at great effort and most of these just tarnished so now I have cut them up and stabilized the coins in acetone.&nbsp; Some of these sets were and were still just stupendous but it&#039;s the coins that need to survive so now, more than ever, mint sets are merely the raw material of most modern markets.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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