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Message:: [QUOTE="Inspector43, post: 26691975, member: 89213"]My first mint purchase was the 1959 Proof set. It cost $2.10. I quit about 2011 after the mint started making ballast (millions of worthless coins to flood the market). Along with that, they constantly changed the packaging and presentation size and format. Example 1: The 3 coin ATB set had changes that would not mean much. But, they screwed up my collection process. I got each of the 3 coins sets which came in capsules. I removed the capsules and mounted them in CAPS Album Pages. Late in the series the size of the capsules was changed just enough that it would no longer just snap in to an album page. I had to remove the coins from the original packaging and put them in capsules that would fit. Example 2: I was buying rolls of the President series dollars. From them I was making sets for my grandchildren and great grandchildren. I think it was about 2011 that the Mint quit offering rolls to the public and we could only buy bags. This made my scheme very difficult and more expensive. I stopped the sets for the kids. I don't buy from the mint anymore. Here are some pics of the ATB Quarter Project. [ATTACH=full]1703217[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1703218[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1703219[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]