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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cladking, post: 3800692, member: 68&quot;]Souvenir sets are hot now days and most in good shape will bring 7 - $10.&nbsp;&nbsp; The &#039;87 is very common and these are a little lower.&nbsp; The &quot;4&quot; &#039;82 and &#039;83&#039;s are about $170 wholesale and typically trade over $200.&nbsp;&nbsp; Some of the later dates are very scarce and sell for big bucks.&nbsp; The &#039;72 is tough and can get pricey.&nbsp;&nbsp; If I remember correctly both &#039;97&#039;s are scarce.&nbsp;&nbsp; I&#039;ve seen set go for over $200 and some of the toughest just don&#039;t trade much at all.&nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve said before that there are no Gem &#039;83 quarters in souvenir sets but this isn&#039;t strictly true.&nbsp; I just forgot I had found one.&nbsp; Sets with Gems can trade for far more and some later dates are said to have burnished PL&#039;s in them.&nbsp; &quot;Burnished PL&#039;s can be common in regular mint sets but who knows what&#039;s in all these sets.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ll tell you another thing about souvenir sets that make them potentially quite valuable.&nbsp; Mint set Gems tend to have a very similar look.&nbsp; They are well made from quality dies and have a full strike.&nbsp; Souvenir set coins are wholly different.&nbsp; For inmstance back in 1980 NOBODY was setting aside clads and fewer than nobody was looking for Gems.&nbsp; Any Gems of something like a 1980-D dime will come from a few mint sets that survive.&nbsp; However I just happened to look through hundreds of souvenir sets at the mint and pulled out several that were highly gemmy (technically MS-67 but without the perfect strike).&nbsp; There could be a demand for such coins in the future and they will be very rare.&nbsp;&nbsp; I looked through nearly 10% of the entire mintage and found only five&nbsp; or six of these.&nbsp;&nbsp; I nabbed a few Gem quarters, halfs, and nickels as well.&nbsp; Didn&#039;t see any cents.&nbsp; Many of these sets just don&#039;t survive any longer because coin dealers spent the coins and sold the mint medal for a dollar or two.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Before 1982 it&#039;s unlikely any of these sets had mintages over about 8,000.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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