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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cladking, post: 675470, member: 68&quot;]Argghhhh.</p><p><br /></p><p>Not too many simple answers here...</p><p><br /></p><p>There have been a lot of different kinds of mint and proof sets issued by the mint for well over 100 years and many different privately produced unc and mint sets.&nbsp; A complete answer would require a great deal of expertise.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Suffice&nbsp; to say the mint has made a proof set most years since 1936 though they&#039;ve made some special proof sets and premeir proof sets.&nbsp; During the &#039;65 to &#039;67 years the proof set wasa called an SMS (special mint set) and some people believe these are more like a mint set.&nbsp; Generally only the mint makes proof sets and there isn&#039;t a lot of confusion though the coins can be repackaged.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Mint sets have been packaged by the mint since 1947 and there&#039;s a great deal more chance for confusion here.&nbsp; All the mint sets don&#039;t contain all the coins for a given year.&nbsp; There have been numerous other kinds of mint sets like the souvenir sets made from &#039;71- &#039;98 and premier sets made in the &#039;90&#039;s.&nbsp; There have also been privately made sets though most of these are 1982 to 1986.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>It might be easier to answer more specific questions.&nbsp; The Redbook lists most of these though only the &#039;82 and &#039;83 souvenir sets.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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