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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cladking, post: 385479, member: 68&quot;]One of the more interesting things about these modern sets is that they often represent the sole surviving population of the coins they contain in a very few years.&nbsp; Back before silver and gold were removed from coinage collectors saved all the coins in circulation whether they had precious metals or not.&nbsp; Afterward they mostly ignored all the coinage and the general public bought the mint sets because they were available.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>These sets generally started in the 60&#039;s and &#039;70&#039;s and the silver was removed in the &#039;50&#039;s and &#039;60&#039;s.&nbsp; Not only are some of the pre-mint set coins nearly impossible to find in nice condition but due to generally low sales and staggering attrition even the mint set coins can be rare.&nbsp; Mintages of these sets were generally only a few thousand and there was simply no demand on the secondary market.&nbsp; This led to their destruction to be sold in poundage and as singles.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>There are many mint sets not listed in Krause but these tended to be unofficial or semi-official sets.&nbsp; They were generally made in even smaller numbers and had even higher attrition.&nbsp; The semi-official sets are most interesting since they often contain superior examples of coins that can&#039;t even be found in their typical condition.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Mintages are usually based on anticipated sales and for foreign governments a lot of these will be US sales.&nbsp; In more recent times there is a lot more domestic demand for all the coins.&nbsp; Sometimes they are made to order but more typically excesses are simply heavily discounted or destroyed.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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