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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 833486, member: 112&quot;]Guys - did you not read what I said below ? Here&#039;s the scenario - </p><p><br /></p><p>Before, we&#039;ll say 1990 for the sake of argument, a mint employee would walk over to a hopper full of regular business strike cents - take aportion of those coins right out of the hopper,and walk them over to the packaging departmnt where those coins were packaged as Mint Sets. These are the facts.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now please tell me - how you could distinguish any of those coins placed in the Mint Sets from any other business strike coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>You couldn&#039;t - because they are business strike coins. Exactly the same, struck from the very same dies at exactly the same time. There is no difference. </p><p><br /></p><p>I submit to you gentlemen, respectfully, that you are imagining things if you think you can tell one from the other. And that applies to every single coin ever placed in a Mint Set before 1990. (as I said before, the date is somewhat arbitrary)</p><p><br /></p><p>That said, the Mint Set coins issued from 1990 (again the arbitrary date for the sake of discussion) through 2004 were struck on special presses with higher pressures. </p><p><br /></p><p>So yes, in a typical Mint Set for that limited time period the coins were usually nicer, meaning less contact marks and a better strike, than ordinary business strikes.</p><p><br /></p><p>However, let us not forget that in any run of regular business strikes there are always those coins that are struck with brand new dies, that are fully struck, and end up, purely by chance, with less contact marks than normal.</p><p><br /></p><p>Then you have the Mint Set coins. Suppose, just suppose, that for the sake of comaprison purposes, you take a group of those Mint Set coins that were struck near the end of die pair&#039;s life - and you compare those coins with the business strikes that were struck with new, fresh dies.</p><p><br /></p><p>What you would find is that the business strikes from among that group are nicer than the Mint Set group.</p><p><br /></p><p>And yet you are still going to tell me that you can tell one from the other ? </p><p><br /></p><p>I think not guys - again I say, you are imagining things. </p><p><br /></p><p>You believe what ya want. But the facts do not support your beliefs.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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