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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 972046, member: 66&quot;]The first year a US Mint coin considered to be a proof was made was 1817&nbsp; The first proof SET was the diplomatic presentation sets made in 1834 for the King of Siam, the Muscat of Oman, Cochin-China, and Japan. These sets contained the 1804 dollars.&nbsp; Proof coins were not sold to the general public until 1858 and they were sold as individual coins.&nbsp; The story of the early proofs is complicated.&nbsp; At some times you could get them as individual coins, at some times, especially for the gold coins they were sold as sets only.&nbsp; Later they made minor proof sets that only had the one through five cent base metal coins.&nbsp; Something a lot of people don&#039;t realize is that the mint didn&#039;t finally give up selling the proof coins individually until 1950.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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