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Message:: [QUOTE="Blaubart, post: 1946400, member: 37498"]Thank you for the visit and the post, but it only clears up half of my uncertainty on this subject.  While Banco de Mexico is apparently endorsing these sets, it still seems a third party (Pat Stovall of Lois & Don Bailey and Son Numismatic Services) is "officially" assembling and marketing them. When I buy a set, I prefer buying government mint products, as in those where everything from A-Z is done by the mint.  I do not like third party products, especially those where someone takes government coinage and packages them up into special collectors' sets.  (TPG's also fall into this category, especially with their various special designations, which are nothing more than marketing hype)  Again, I'm still not sure that's exactly what is happening with these sets, I'm just speculating. Maybe this is just how things are done in Mexico with Banco de Mexico producing coins and their "official distributors" doing the packaging and marketing for collectors. I suppose another important nugget of information (IMHO) would be whose idea was it to create these sets?  Banco de Mexico's or Pat Stovall's?  If it's the former and they essentially contracted with Pat Stovall to assemble the sets, then that's one thing.  If it's the latter and he received permission from Banco de Mexico to sell them, then that's certainly less appealing to me.[/QUOTE]