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Pretty pastel toning but I also think our hosts will not look favorably on it. I'm seeing AU details and suspect toning... perhaps subsequent to a cleaning or dip. I'd put it in my album and find one already certified if you need to have one in plastic.

The coin itself is cool. A small, curved clip (some would say a disc clip) and a large straight clip, the combination of which is quite uncommon on a single coin!

Since Registry Award time will be coming up shortly, how many of your Registry Sets are parked in 2nd place with a Hansen set as #1 with some of the coins now in CACG holders?

Getting closer!

@Goldbully said:

@SilverPlatinum said:
Are all 10 coins 999 silver?

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Well this is sad. They can use silver for the dime, quarters, and half, but they can’t be bothered to make the cent in bronze? Still using zinc?!

Thank you for the report. I've been dying to hear about the 'new' LB show!

Dave

Accugrade small holders.

@cladking said:

@jmlanzaf said:

@cladking said:
The wholesale price of almost all the 2009 to date proof sets is over $20, and some are significantly higher. Older proof sets are going for 6 times face value and higher. Proof singles still add up to more than the intact sets. Be careful with sets because a lot of them have bad coins in them.

There was a time you could buy a lot of proof sets for as little as 2 1/2 times face but no longer. You can get proof rolls of dimes and quarters for so little but not sets.

Are you buying? Every dealer i know hates them and can't get rid of them. Except one, he's been specializing in them for decades. He's now buying at 40 back.

I hate to break this to you but coin dealers and the whole numismatic establishment hate clad.

I've mentioned it enough times.

They buy the stuff in estate sales and dump most of it in their cash registers or lug it to the bank. They have no customers for coins made after 1964 and they treat it accordingly. Meanwhile... ...surprise... ...surprise... ...the attrition is so high much of it is getting harder to find. The general public buys things like proof sets and BU rolls but they are getting harder to find because they've been consumed.

Most proof sets survive in numbers of around half a million (due to attrition and declining mintages). This seems like a lot to the hobby because the hobby hates moderns. Apparently a third of a billion Americans are having more difficulty finding them. 1971 proof sets aren't rare or scarce but price increases are reflecting the difficulty of keeping nice sets in stock.

Dealers hate clad because it is hard to sell. Period. You somehow seem to be both saying no one wants them and the price has gone up because people want them.