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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 690127, member: 66&quot;]A Mint Set contains one coin from each mint struck for circulation, plus usually a little plastic or metal cent sized token identifying the mint.&nbsp; They contain two pliofilm packets one with a blue edge and one with a red edge.&nbsp; (This is a general rule for sets after 1958 an there are some exceptions)&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>A Souvenir set contained only one packet with just the coins struck at the mint where the set was sold.&nbsp; Plus it has a large, near dollar sized, brass medal of the mint it was sold at.&nbsp; (You could not buy Denver sets in Philadelphia or vice versa.)&nbsp; They were intended to be purchased at the mint gift shop as a souvenir of your visit and were not sold on the mint mailing list.</p><p><br /></p><p>There were no 1982 or 83 Mint Sets, but there were Souvenir sets.&nbsp; There were Souvenir sets for many other years as well (something like a 20+ year period.)&nbsp; While the mint sets have &quot;high&quot; mintages with the lowest still being close to a million sets, the Souvenir set mintages were much lower, often just a few thousand sets.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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