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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cladking, post: 350809, member: 68&quot;]Wow!</p><p><br /></p><p>Good luck, you&#039;re going to need it.</p><p><br /></p><p>Even the &#039;68 and &#039;69 are very tough and the others are virtualkly impossible.&nbsp; When such a set shows up there is a huge tendency for it to get busted up and a few of the coins sent in for grading.&nbsp; I&#039;ve seen a really nice &#039;64 and a close &#039;58 but the other dates have eluded me.&nbsp; I&#039;d guess you&#039;d have to look at close to 400 original sets of a given date to find all cameo.&nbsp; Finding this number of original sets now days would be a huge project in itself.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>They might not be quite as tough as I&#039;m suggesting since mint personell did play around with things like this and there might be a little difference in our grading standards.&nbsp; My experience with all proof sets is not extremely deep.&nbsp; SMS&#039;s are impossible though.&nbsp; Here my experience is much deeper.&nbsp; Even excluding the penny which is scarce to rare in cameo I&#039;ve never seen an all gem set that I wasn&#039;t sure was put together (the &#039;66 and &#039;67 cases can be opened).&nbsp; Ironically the &#039;65 set would probably be available this way but there is some perverse thing where if the dime is nice then the nickel isn&#039;t.&nbsp; The dime and nickel are toughest and make or break the most close sets.&nbsp; There are more almost there cents with this date as well.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve always thought a nice collection of mint and proof sets like this would not only make a fantastic collection but would be excessively rare someday.&nbsp; They make astounding collections and are a lot of fun to assemble.&nbsp; I&#039;ve been doing this with the mint sets for years now and some of these are just amazing.&nbsp; After you look at a lot of these you start to understand why so many letters to the editors would talk about fabulous quality&nbsp; while others spoke of coins that had kicked around on the floor for weeks before being shoveled up and put in mint sets.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I applaud you but imagine you have your work cut out for you.&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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