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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;gboulton, post: 1478104, member: 27043&quot;]Which would matter if we were talking about 1998 Mint Sets.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Amusingly, the market doesn&#039;t set its prices based on what one collector guesses has happened.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m sorry, you&#039;re not being vague enough here...</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;Almost no one&quot; collects the rocks in my back yard, either.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Um...what?</p><p><br /></p><p>Let me make sure I&#039;ve got this right.&nbsp; Nobody is collecting common date modern mint sets, because if they were, they&#039;d be hoarded in mansions, and you&#039;d know about it.</p><p><br /></p><p>Did I follow that?</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Interesting.</p><p><br /></p><p>It doesn&#039;t seem to have changed many of the commonly available ancients that, due to the lack of demand, can be had for &lt; $10 in junk bins at dealers and shows around the world.&nbsp; I suppose that too, might change...so, I suppose if you want to argue that the 98 P Quarter will explode in value 2200 years from now, i probably won&#039;t contest that assertion.</p><p><br /></p><p>It also doesn&#039;t seem to have had any impact on common date wheat cents or IHCs.&nbsp; Heck, it hasn&#039;t even had much impact on common date silver coins...there&#039;s a handful of Barbers and WLHs in every $100 of junk silver...and has been ever since silver crossed $6 an oz.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve got dozens of pieces of artwork by my kids...each one is one of a kind, and will never be made again.&nbsp; Supply can&#039;t GET any thinner than that.</p><p><br /></p><p>Where&#039;s the demand??</p><p><br /></p><p>Oh..that&#039;s right...the real world doesn&#039;t suddenly demand things just because they&#039;re hard to find.&nbsp; The real world demands things when they possess some sort of value, or have some sort of significance.</p><p><br /></p><p>Plain old run of the mill 1 in a trillion coins with no valuable content don&#039;t fit that category...and never will.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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