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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;mlov43, post: 2508819, member: 16729&quot;]No, the 2005 set does not have proof coins of any kind, neither the regular nor the &quot;foreign&quot; version.&nbsp; It may be a &quot;foreign&quot; set?&nbsp; Look at the case and/or slipcover.&nbsp; If it lacks Korean lettering on it, it is a &quot;foreign&quot; one. </p><p><br /></p><p>In any case, the Korean Mint, Komsco, used some pretty decent full, cleanly-struck coins in its mint sets up to around 2007.&nbsp; They clearly used very careful practices when minting the mint set coins from 1995 to around 2007, since there are practically no dings or bag marks on them. Must have used some very nice coining dies, too. </p><p><br /></p><p>In fact, I broke open some cheap World Cup 2001 and 2002 mint sets to get at the coins for my &quot;frankenstein&quot; South Korea Dansco air-tite albums. The coins inside those sets were probably the best-struck coins for regular strikes that I&#039;ve seen from South Korea.&nbsp; After 2007, you notice that they cared a lot less, and just used regularly-struck coins in the regular mint sets. Those coins exhibit a few, to many, bag marks.&nbsp; The &quot;foreign mint&nbsp; sets&quot; for these years were still well-struck, though.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here are my regular and &quot;foreign&quot; mint sets for 2009. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]533245[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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