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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;washingtonerr, post: 218202, member: 8635&quot;]<b>I agree, but I&#039;m cautiously</b></p><p><br /></p><p>waiting to see how many are out there and hopefully the US Mint will put a number out.&nbsp; I&#039;ve been actively monitoring these boards and reading coin world and other magazines trying to stay atop of what is going on with these coins.&nbsp;&nbsp; First, my collecting experience is limited and goes as far as about 100 coins that were given to me when I was a kid which was about 25 years ago.&nbsp; Furthermore, when I was a teenager I bought some proof sets from the 60&#039;s and 50&#039;s which I sold last year for financial reasons, but I did make a nice return on these sets that I&#039;m sure beat the stock market.&nbsp; Initially, I was hesitant to buy these coins when I learned about them in late February thinking that they would pop up all over the place as more rolls were opened, but evidently this never happened.&nbsp; Next, I was reluctant to buy any since I feared that I might buy some from someone that sanded them down.&nbsp;&nbsp; Finally, from watching ebay there appeaws to be one person (instantauctions) that has a hoard of these which seems to have kept a lid on prices and unfortunately I have no idea how many he has, but lately I have been pulling the trigger on a few auctions and I have bought 4 65&#039;s and 1 66 hoping that this instantauction guy is almost out and prices will begin to climb from there.&nbsp;&nbsp; I believe if coinworld confirms 60,000 out there then these fly, but if there are over a 100k then I can&#039;t see these shooting up in the near term.&nbsp;&nbsp; Heck when the presidential series is over 10</p><p>years from now there will probably be about 8 or 9 billion presidential coins out there (200 million per president times 45 presidents) and can you imagine if only 60,000 smooth edges ever made it out there out of 8 or 9 billion?&nbsp; This should be very interesting to see what happens and what the Mint concludes in their investigation.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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