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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 24648852, member: 112&quot;]Up until, I think it was &#039;92, all the coins in Mint Sets were simply pulled from the business strikes. But starting then and every year since, that stopped and coins for Mint Sets came from an entirely different and their own production run. </p><p><br /></p><p>The dies used were the same dies as made for the business strikes, but they were all new dies that were only used on Mint Set coins. And those dies struck far, far fewer coins than any that were used to strike business strikes. That resulted in the coins not showing as much die wear as business strike coins have.</p><p><br /></p><p>Other than that the only other difference is that there was more care taken with the handling and packaging of the Mint Set coins. Which often resulted in the Mint Set coins having fewer contact marks than business strike coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>As mentioned above there was a period when the Mint Set coins had a different satin finish on them as a result of using specially prepared dies. But like what happens with Proof coins and the cameo effect, the satin finish on the dies quickly wore off so it was pretty common for many of the Mint Set coins to end up not having a satin finish or only a partial satin finish during that brief time period. Which is why the mint quit doing it because it became too expensive to produce them.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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