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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cladking, post: 836014, member: 68&quot;]I agree with you that in most cases it is impossible to tell if a given coin came from a mint set with 100% accuracy.&nbsp; There are a few coins that can be identified as a mint set coin with effectively 100% accuracy.&nbsp; There are others that can be stated with 99.99999% accuracy. </p><p><br /></p><p>But the vast majority of mint set coins lose their &quot;mint set status&quot; as soon as they are removed from the mint set.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>But a group of coins is different than an individual coin.&nbsp; A sample of a bag or a roll of coins will NEVER look like a sample from mint sets.&nbsp; As I&#039;ve said you can separate regular issues from mint set coins with as 95% accuracy so when you&#039;re talking about a BU roll there is no real chance of being fooled.&nbsp; ...You&#039;d have to be fooled 40 times and the odds of this are one in 20 to the 40th power.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>There really is a substantial difference though this difference varies a little between dates and hugely between individual coins.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Look at the trouble the services have in telling the SMS coins from the regular issues.&nbsp; It&#039;s the same principle in action.&nbsp; But what needs to be remembered is that these coins that throw them and cause such consternation can literally be one in a million.&nbsp; They can&#039;t tell with 100% certainty any more than I can.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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