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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cladking, post: 3179351, member: 68&quot;]A better question might be why are the coins in the later mint sets worth far more than the mint set.&nbsp; when you understand the answer to this question you&#039;ll understand why intact sets from the &#039;50&#039;s are worth more than the sum of their coins. </p><p><br /></p><p>There is a demand for every US coin ever issued.&nbsp; Almost all of this demand is for coins minted before 1965. The demand for later coins is miniscule but they are cut out of mint sets to sell.&nbsp; The sellers prefer to buy them already cut and culls removed.&nbsp; This means they offer higher prices to buy them in this form and this sets the wholesale price for BU rolls.&nbsp; Of course they&#039;re happy to get work-a-day rolls but few of these exist and those that do are often inferior quality which can&#039;t be sold.&nbsp;&nbsp; Only pennies and nickels were set aside in rolls in significant numbers and availability is spotty even for these.&nbsp;&nbsp; Some like &#039;97-D nickels are rarely seen. </p><p><br /></p><p>Those coins made after 1933 and before 1965 were set aside in huge numbers so few have much of any premium.&nbsp; But the mint sets that contain these coins were made in tiny numbers and have had large attrition.&nbsp;&nbsp; Mint sets for these early dates are not readily available so what you&#039;re seeing is largely the effect of the demand of mint set collectors who simply desire a set of each date.&nbsp; Of course the supply is further stressed by collectors picking over these sets looking for Gems.&nbsp; They know these sets contain some of the finest coins made and they seek the specific sets that contain one of these superb specimens.&nbsp;&nbsp; They tend to bid against each other with set collectors winning the original (unopened) and typical sets and Gem collectors winning those sets with the finest coins.&nbsp;&nbsp; The wholesale price of sets is largely set by what a set collector will pay and the price of an individual set will be much higher if has a superb Gem or believed it might contain one.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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