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Message:: [QUOTE="cpm9ball, post: 4142226, member: 24633"]When the CPG finally classified it as a variety in 2012, they commented, "To date, fewer than two dozen of these have been reported. Surely more exist." I'm guessing that it is probably fewer than two dozen. They have only been reported in the full Silver Proof Set, not the SQ Proof Set. Of the four sets that I received from the Mint, I found two of the sets with the KS Die Dent, but I gave one of the sets to a friend whom I had included in my order. When the Coin World article was published about a collector in the southwest US who supposedly found ten sets with the Die Dent, they reported that he had distributed them as Christmas presents to family members. That would make twelve sets known, but there have never been any others reported since then. The die dent is so clearly visible to the naked eye that I don't see how the Mint employees who were processing the proof coins by hand could possibly miss them. It is my guess that once the error was discovered that any other damaged coins were removed, but nothing was done to check any of the sets previously put together, awaiting shipping. ~ Chris[/QUOTE]