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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;tanner520, post: 110770, member: 1613&quot;]Hi all,</p><p>I was away for a while or else I would have answered this thread earlier.</p><p><br /></p><p>What you have, uppermi, is a US Mint Souvenir Set, just as pdlinch and Mikjo0 mentioned earlier.&nbsp; I just happen to be a Souvenir Set collector and have quite a bit of trivia about these little jewels.&nbsp; Each of these sets came with a cent, nickel, dime, quarter, half dollar and a bronze Mint medallion from the corresponding Mint.</p><p><br /></p><p>These Souvenir Sets mainly were made at the Denver and Philadelphia Mints and mainly sold at their gift shops at those sites.&nbsp; The Mint medallion simply has a date designating when the corresponding Mint was established.&nbsp; It&#039;s not a mintage date.</p><p><br /></p><p>The Denver Mint made these sets from 1972 to 1998 and came in light blue to dark blue envelopes.&nbsp; The words &quot;Denver Mint Souvenir Set&quot; were printed in the lower right corner of the envelope in a thin Gothic font in the years 1972 to 1975 and later went to a cursive bold font from 1976 to 1998.</p><p><br /></p><p>The Phialdelphia Mint made these sets from 1973 to 1998 and came in light green envelopes.&nbsp; The words &quot;Philadelphia Mint Souvenir Set&quot; were printed in the lower right corner of the envelope in a normal Arial font for every year.</p><p><br /></p><p>There were three Susan B. Anthony Dollar Souvenir Sets created from 1979 to 1981, which had one of each of the Denver, Philadelphia and San Francisco minted dollars for each of those years.&nbsp; The 1979 set came in a yellow envelope, the 1980 set came in a light blue envelope and the 1981 set came in a light green envelope.</p><p><br /></p><p>Also during the years of 1979 to 1981, the San Francisco Mint made Proof Souvenir Sets with a Proof cent, nickel, dime, quarter and half dollar along with a small Proof San Francisco bronze Mint medallion.&nbsp; They came in pink envelopes with the words &quot;San Francisco Souvenir Proof Set&quot; in the upper left corner.&nbsp; One other popular Souvenir Set from San Francisco is the 1976 ANA Convention Set which contained a bicentennial quarter and half dollar as well as a San Francisco large bronze Mint medallion, much different than the ones mentioned earlier.&nbsp; The set was in a blue envelope with the words &quot;Bureau of the Mint Mary Brooks, Director&quot; in the lower right corner.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve been unable to find any data on the mintage of any of these sets simply because this data was not kept.&nbsp; These sets weren&#039;t really considered formal enough of a release to keep track of.&nbsp; However, I think they&#039;re kinda neat and started collecting them after doing what most people do when they try to get one of every Mint Uncirculated Set.&nbsp; Since there were no Mint Sets made in 1982 and 1983, people usually buy one of these as a &quot;place filler&quot; for those years.&nbsp; Most people don&#039;t even know there are Souvenir Sets for these other years.</p><p><br /></p><p>The 1976 sets had the bicentennial coins and a different Mint medallion than the other years but my favorite sets are the 1975 sets from Denver and Philadelphia.&nbsp; Since there were no 1974 quarters and half dollars made in 1975, the Mint just kept using 1974 coins as replacements in these sets.&nbsp; So that year had a 1975 cent, nickel and dime and a 1974 quarter and half dollar - and, of course, the Mint medallion.</p><p><br /></p><p>Anyway, hope this helps some and gives more information than you wanted to know about these sets.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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