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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cladking, post: 2558307, member: 68&quot;]I&#039;m surprised nobody asked why I thought moderns have finally started their move!&nbsp; It would have already happened except the 2008 recession flooded the market with mint sets and swamped the demand.&nbsp; These sets have now been worked off. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>All the roadsigns have been in place for a few years now but there has been no catalyst and no spark for the move.&nbsp; I believe the catalyst is the gradual disappearance of the older style quarters from circulation and the spark now is a wholesale (probably HSN related) demand for coins from these sets.&nbsp; Even existing demand at the wholesale level has been going unfilled and now there is sufficient new demand to suck up every mint set available for sale on the market.&nbsp; Add to this the fact that mint sets have been flowing to the general public through untraditional venues siphoning off lots of the ready supply and this is a prescription for some scrambling to fill orders.&nbsp; This scrambling will actually tighten the market as many would be sellers hold out for higher prices. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>To some extent this could be somewhat self containing because increasing prices will impact demand.&nbsp; Shop at Home customers will be more reluctant to buy mint set collections if the price is substantially higher. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>It will be interesting to see how this plays out over the coming weeks and months but frankly a buying panic would hardly surprise me.&nbsp; Many dealers don&#039;t even stock this sort of material so just the demand for stock will swamp the supply. Even those do stock it willusually have only a few coins of each date and mint mark and these could walk out the door almost immediately.&nbsp; It should be remembered that the typical clad dime is selling for only a quarter or fifty cents so a tripling of price will hardly suppress the demand.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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