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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cladking, post: 1255418, member: 68&quot;]The best coins have pretty much consistently gone into mint sets since 1965 when the proof presses were shipped to San Francisco and mint set coins were struck on them.&nbsp; Mint set coins are struck at lower speeds with more pressure by new dies. Of course this mostly only assures that coins are high quality when they come off the dies and doesn&#039;t assure that&nbsp; they aren&#039;t scratched up. It also doesn&#039;t preclude the possibility that regular issue coins might not have been even better.&nbsp; As a rule of thumb it doesn&#039;t matter if regular issue post-&#039;64 coins were better than mint set coins or not because almost no regular issue coins were saved and all that exist in pristine condition came from mint sets.&nbsp; Also keep in mind that strike characteristics aren&#039;t very important to some collectors and virtually all of some coins in mint sets can have marking.&nbsp; In such a case some people will prefer regular issue if they can find them.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>In almost every single case for coins made since 1965 the finest coins will come from mint sets.&nbsp; This is a little less true for Ikes and a few specific dates of other coins.&nbsp; Generally superb gems are simply impossible from rolls and finding them in mint sets is like shooting fish in a barrel.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I heartell that quality of the &#039;11 mint sets is dismal.&nbsp; It&#039;s still a safe bet the finest few hundred of each coin were all put in mint sets though even if they are tough.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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