On 2010-11-24 8:46, Boris Liberman wrote:
Doug, the whole point of my little adventure in US coinage has been to "find" these coins while visiting USA. Obviously I can "get" the whole set somewhere somehow, but that would be boring, wouldn't it?
In some ways, but it's the only way to get the proof sets timely and at a reasonable price, sometimes. I do both: "found" coins and "bought" coins, but I'm not terribly serious about either. I bought the annual proof sets of the 50 State Quarters series as they came out, because I didn't want to miss any of them as much as due to the improved appearance of proofs over circulation quality coins.
There are also issues that have short enough runs that, practically, you aren't going to just run into them later unless you hunt them down in the coin trading ecosystem. For example, a year or two ago, they did a commemorative for Mr. Braille who invented the Braille writing system for blind people. Having two blind aunts, that was of interest to me. The coolest thing was they put his initials on the coin, in Braille, and the proof coin came in a plastic capsule you could open to feel it. Usually the capsules are sealed on the proofs you get from the Mint.
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