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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 2363651, member: 66&quot;]Gathering dust.</p><p><br /></p><p>2012 had a low sales figure and they cut off the sales early, prices jumped.&nbsp; In 2013 everyone jumped on the bandwagon and mintage was high. In 1999 the mint place tight sales restrictions on sets and they were hard to come by.&nbsp; The prices went way high.&nbsp; In 2000 there were no restrictions, everybody bought a lot of sets hoping to profit on high prices like in 1999.&nbsp; the market was glutted and the price tanked.&nbsp; This turned everybody off and they stayed away form proof sets in 2001.&nbsp; The result was a low mintage and the price skyrocketed.</p><p><br /></p><p>Other things to consider.&nbsp; Most collectors collect moderns, so they buy proof sets.&nbsp; Many of them buy more than one set, either to keep one and break up the other for their different series sets, of they buy multiple sets hoping to keep one and sell the others for enough that their one set will be free.&nbsp; The net result of this is that there are usually more sets available than demand for them and after a few years the prices drop below issue price.&nbsp; When that happens a lot of people just let them sit rather than sell them for a loss, and they gather dust.</p><p><br /></p><p>And some things just don&#039;t make any sense.&nbsp; The 1995 proof set for some reason skyrocketed and for several years sold for over $100 a set, reaching a high of $150.&nbsp; Today it&#039;s an $8 set (issue price was $12.50) and a giveaway item at my local coin club[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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