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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Oldhoopster, post: 2865891, member: 84179&quot;]You are mixing 2 different things here.</p><p><br /></p><p>The No S and No P coins are rare mint errors.&nbsp; These coins were struck by dies that were missing the mintmark, and very few were minted.&nbsp; The No S coins are Proofs and can easily be differentiated from business strike coins made without mintmarks.&nbsp; All 1980 dimes have a mintmark (PDS), so anything without a mintmark (and not altered after minting) is from this specific die and rare.</p><p><br /></p><p>Your mint set is a packaging mistake.&nbsp; The US mint made over 700 million 1980-P and 1980-D dimes.&nbsp; The packaging mistake just gave you an extra D Mint that is no different than the other 700 million coins and shorted you a P mint.</p><p><br /></p><p>People usually buy mint sets to get 1 example of each coin.&nbsp; Yours is missing one.&nbsp; It is an interesting conversation item, but not worth anything.</p><p><br /></p><p>Hope that helps explain the difference[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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