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<p>[QUOTE="cladking, post: 834712, member: 68"]I should also add that the mint never did claim these were just snatched from regular production runs. They've been exceedingly secretive about them until about 1996. Tom Delorey wrote an article about them for Coinage about that time called the "Mint's Secret Coins". He was actually given a partial tour of the area where the coins were made and handled but they wouldn't allow photographs. Up until this time the only thing they'd say about mint set coins was some variation of "they are just regular coins". </p><p><br /></p><p>But even a most casual observer would see that these are not at all like regular coins. Regular coins were almost always banged up aftyer being weakly struck by worn and misaligned dies. I used to sample hundreds of different quarter dies (thiousands of rolls) each year looking for nice ones to set aside and many years the best I'd find wouldn't be as nice as the average mint set coin. It was quite obvious these were specially made and more carefully handled. The claim they were just plucked off the line was obviously wrong. Since 1996 they've become much more open about these coins. They now admit they are struck on the old vertical presses at slower speeds and higher pressure. This provides more time for all the parts of the die to fill in meaning far betteer strikes. Instead of 750,000 coins per die they are changed after only 30,000 strikes and then used to strike regular coins. Normally the dies are exactly the same but mint set dies are sometimes basined (flattened) or partially basined. </p><p><br /></p><p>The mint site even gives a guided tour of the numismatic coin prioduction fascilities. </p><p><br /></p><p>The bottom line is that a few coins made for circulation can be quite stunning. They can even be highly PL and very very gem. Mint set coins are often dogs even though most of the dogs are well struck and virtually all are struck by new dies. </p><p><br /></p><p>Mint sets are not the be all end all of modern circulation issue collecting for a few reasons. For one all moderns don't even appear in mint sets. Most varieties don't appear in mint sets as well. Also some mint set coins are almost invariably bad and you're better off finding rolls if there are any.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="cladking, post: 834712, member: 68"]I should also add that the mint never did claim these were just snatched from regular production runs. They've been exceedingly secretive about them until about 1996. Tom Delorey wrote an article about them for Coinage about that time called the "Mint's Secret Coins". He was actually given a partial tour of the area where the coins were made and handled but they wouldn't allow photographs. Up until this time the only thing they'd say about mint set coins was some variation of "they are just regular coins". But even a most casual observer would see that these are not at all like regular coins. Regular coins were almost always banged up aftyer being weakly struck by worn and misaligned dies. I used to sample hundreds of different quarter dies (thiousands of rolls) each year looking for nice ones to set aside and many years the best I'd find wouldn't be as nice as the average mint set coin. It was quite obvious these were specially made and more carefully handled. The claim they were just plucked off the line was obviously wrong. Since 1996 they've become much more open about these coins. They now admit they are struck on the old vertical presses at slower speeds and higher pressure. This provides more time for all the parts of the die to fill in meaning far betteer strikes. Instead of 750,000 coins per die they are changed after only 30,000 strikes and then used to strike regular coins. Normally the dies are exactly the same but mint set dies are sometimes basined (flattened) or partially basined. The mint site even gives a guided tour of the numismatic coin prioduction fascilities. The bottom line is that a few coins made for circulation can be quite stunning. They can even be highly PL and very very gem. Mint set coins are often dogs even though most of the dogs are well struck and virtually all are struck by new dies. Mint sets are not the be all end all of modern circulation issue collecting for a few reasons. For one all moderns don't even appear in mint sets. Most varieties don't appear in mint sets as well. Also some mint set coins are almost invariably bad and you're better off finding rolls if there are any.[/QUOTE]
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