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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;LakeEffect, post: 3142885, member: 43201&quot;]Ok, here&#039;s what I think I&#039;ve learned (thanks to everybody that chimed in)</p><p><br /></p><p>If you buy an <b><i>Uncirculated Set </i> </b>from the mint, you get coins struck at a higher pressure*, on specially prepared blanks, hand-loaded into the press by highly trained oompa-loompas wearing cotton gloves. They are intended to be superior specimens, although they may or may not be.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you buy <i><b>anything else</b></i> - bags, rolls, circulating sets, whatever - you&#039;re getting everyday, ordinary, business strikes that aren&#039;t guaranteed to be anything. These could conceivably (to me) grade anywhere from AU-50 to MS-70, you take your chances. They are potentially inferior, but may or may not be.</p><p><br /></p><p>So to answer my own question from the original post - yes there is a difference between the 2 sets.&nbsp; Whether that difference translates into anything tangible is up to you. I guess paying up for the $13.95 set increases your odds of getting nice coins, but nothing precludes you from getting a really nice coin in the $5.95 set.</p><p><br /></p><p>*I just perused the Mint&#039;s web site, and there is a statement on the uncirculated set page verifying the &quot;higher pressure strike&quot;.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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