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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cladking, post: 1593385, member: 68&quot;]I think you have about the best possible plan here.&nbsp; One of the things you&#039;ll see pretty quickly is that the mint set coins will have better strikes from newer dies than the roll coins.&nbsp; This effect is even more pronounced in other denominations.&nbsp; There aren&#039;t nearly as many varieties in the mint sets and and most of those that appear in the sets are more common.&nbsp; My favorites are the &#039;74-D DDO that appears in about 6% of the sets and the &#039;88 rotated reverse in about .7% of sets.&nbsp; &nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I highly recommend Wiles&#039; landmark work on this series; &quot;The Kennedy Half Dollar Book&quot; -1998.&nbsp; It lists almost all the varieties and delineates those found in mint sets.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Don&#039;t be too picky at first when you look for Gems.&nbsp; Some of these just don&#039;t come extremely nice.&nbsp; A Gem &#039;74 won&#039;t be as spectaclar as a Gem &#039;79 for instance.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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