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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;tanner520, post: 94153, member: 1613&quot;]I pulled out all of my original Proof sets and started looking for COA&#039;s.&nbsp; The first cardboard insert that I found was in 1986 but it wasn&#039;t a COA, it was a &quot;Specifications&quot; card for each denomination included in the Proof set.&nbsp; It&#039;s a purple-ish color to match that year&#039;s packaging and is titled for 1986.&nbsp; This was similarly duplicated in the 1987, 1988 and 1989 Proof sets as well, with only the date on the insert changing.</p><p><br /></p><p>The first official COA that I found was in 1990, which is still part of the purple Proof sets era.&nbsp; The COA looks just like the 1986-1989 &quot;Specifications&quot; cards except for two items:</p><p>1. The COA information is written on the reverse of the specifications insert</p><p>2. This cardboard insert is not dated.</p><p>This is the exact same COA used from 1990-1993, with none being dated and all the same purple-ish color.</p><p><br /></p><p>The year that started the COA as we know it today started in the first green Proof set, 1994.&nbsp; This was a white folding insert with the COA information in the middle and the specification information on the back.</p><p><br /></p><p>Going back to the earlier proof sets, they had a thin paper insert from the Mint Superintendent explaining that the Proof set had been carefully inspected and that any defects or scratches that may appear to be on the coin are actually on the polyethelene-coated cellaphane.&nbsp; This started with the 1958 Proof set and stopped with the 1964 year.&nbsp; The 1960-1964 insert also included information about tarnishing that could occur to the coins.&nbsp; But, of course, these were far from a COA.&nbsp; The last insert that I can find until 1986 is for the 1965 Special Mint set explaining the new clad coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>Hope this helps.&nbsp; :high5:[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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