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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 757208, member: 112&quot;]The satin finish coins were only introduced in 2005. So all Mint Sets issued before that are different.</p><p><br /></p><p>That said, there was a time when the coins in the Mint Sets were merely taken from the regular business strikes, placed in set holders and sold as Mint Sets. I can&#039;t tell you the exact year that changed, but I think it was in the &#039;80s. Maybe Conder or cladking knows the exact year.</p><p><br /></p><p>Then the mint changed things. Mint Set coins began to receive more careful handling, special washing of the planchets, they were struck in special presses, at slower rates, and at higher pressures than business strikes. </p><p><br /></p><p>So again, even though they could not be told apart from the business strikes, they were not the same as the business strikes. And typically the highest graded examples came from Mint Sets for those years.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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