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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cladking, post: 14118, member: 68&quot;]The &#039;69 mint set is my favorite so I have to comment.</p><p><br /></p><p>The coins are all rarely very nice in this set.&nbsp; The Denver dime isn&#039;t extremely tough and the Denver quarter is a little tougher but finding superb gems of these coins was very difficult the day they left the mint. In the original sets up to 4% of the D dimes were very choice and about 3% of the quarters.&nbsp; The half was close behind.&nbsp; These sets were everywhere and they could be purchased for less than face value because no one wanted them.&nbsp; Over the years the number of sets and their contents have simply been decimated.&nbsp; Most of these sets are cut up and gone forever with the coins often just put into circulation.&nbsp; The sets that remain are usually damaged by tarnish and corrosion.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>This set contains what is perhaps the most underrated of all moderns; the Philly quarter.&nbsp; Most of these in the sets are abysmal.&nbsp; Only about 5% of the remaining coins can even be considered choice unc.&nbsp; Most modern collectors consider this the mimimum collectible grade and there are very few of these still available now days.&nbsp; These sets are not going to yield up very many more gems simply because there are too few left. This is a BU roll which for practical purposes doesn&#039;t exist.&nbsp; I&#039;ve been looking for rolls since 1972 and have never seen one intact.&nbsp; About ten years ago I ran into one that had been split open and was being used to make change in a coin shop.&nbsp; The dealer sold me the balance of it.&nbsp; He knew the roll had a premium but said he had no customers for such things.&nbsp; The coins I saw back in 1969 were almost always very poorly made and it is very difficult to find one of these in circulation without extreme wear.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Even when the &#039;69 sets left the mint only about one in 300 was really gem quality.&nbsp; The biggest problem with these was that the marking on the planchets was not obliterated by the strike.&nbsp; Even gems tend to be rougher than other dates.&nbsp; The Denver quarter appears sometimes with a very silky luster and will sometimes be PL. This coin tends to have strike weakness in many cases, but the gems aren&#039;t rare.&nbsp; It also is very tough to find in rolls but is seen on rare occasion.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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