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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cladking, post: 722546, member: 68&quot;]The souvenir mint sets went into production in 1971 or &#039;72 and were made every year through 1998. They were intended as a &quot;sample&quot; of the current coins being made at the mint for visitors who took the tour and cost $4.&nbsp; Many were available at various times to persons enterring from the street and in later years were sold at other FED distribution points.&nbsp; The &#039;82 and &#039;83 sets were actually available mail order but very few were aware of the fact and sales were extremely light.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Over the years mintages varied from 400 to close to 80,000.&nbsp; These higher figures were for the &#039;87 sets which contained the mint set &quot;only&quot; half dollars.&nbsp; Regular mint set coins are made on numismatic presses and tend to be far higher quality than souvenir set coins but it&#039;s obvious that pains were taken to find nice specimens for the souvenir sets.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Mintages for these have been reported as 10,000 for each of the Philly sets, 15,000 for the &#039;82-D, and 20,000 for the &#039;83-D.&nbsp; None of the mintages appear to be official but a few have been published by the mint or other parties apparently in communication with the mint.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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