Is this actually, what is known as a souvenir set? I thought they had a brass token in the set. http://cgi.ebay.com/Estate-Sale-198...CC%2BCRS%2BIA%2BUCI%2BSI%2BUS-BWR&otn=1&ps=33
To the best of my knowledge the US Mint did not produce mint sets in 1982. I don't know what that is but the red flags are waving for me.
They made souvenir sets that were sold at the Mint gift shops, but I thought they had brass or bronze tokens in the set.
It's probably a set put together by a third party. I had a 1982 set like that a while back made by Krause Publications. It looks basically like a real mint set, but in the case of the one I had, it said Krause Publications and had a "kp" logo on one side of the plastic tokens. I read that a few companies did this to fill the gap, since there were no real mint sets. I'd imagine this is a similar set, since it doesn't look like any souvenir sets I've seen. I believe the souvenir sets were also separate envelopes for the P and D coins.
As said the Mint did not make Mint Sets in 82 or 83. They did make Souvenir sets, but they did have a copper mint medal in the sets, and the envelope said (at least on the 83 sets) Souvenir Set not Mint Set. But there were a lot of "mint sets" made up by private third parties back then to fill the void. The set in that auction is one of those third party sets.
Here are some really good photos I found of the real souvenir sets: http://cgi.ebay.com/RARE-1982-P-D-S...l?hash=item45ec22cd49&_trksid=p3286.m20.l1116 Man that Philly half has some serious bag marks! ((This is not my auction))
