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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;7Jags, post: 2426866, member: 78719&quot;]I&#039;m posting this mainly out of low level frustration: I started by collecting Franklin Mint issues of Jamaica as many sets of the early to mid-70s are easily obtained, and sometimes for less than bullion value even now.</p><p>Well I found that those of the mid-80s were much tougher, namely the 1984 set and single proof and uncirculated 10 dollar coin of that year. I then consulted Krause and found that there were later year sets, and slowly began to collect those.</p><p><br /></p><p>I then found that some years were much harder to locate than others despite all but the 1985 having a listed &quot;mintage&quot; of 500 sets. In fact some seemed to NEVER appear, and some years were not even listed by Krause yet seemed to exist. So in the now-elapsed 10 years I would say that those from 1996-2001 are much scarcer, and although listed have YET to see a 2002 set.</p><p><br /></p><p>As this seems to be the case I have written the Royal Mint twice without response, asking what the actual number of sets minted were, and how many were actually released and SOLD. So the authorized mintage was 500, but how many are there actually of each year? The Bank of Jamaica (BoJ) similarly does not know really anything at all, and if they keep records nobody knows where they are.</p><p><br /></p><p>What seems to be fact judging from the Cayman Islands is that not the full authorized number are necessarily struck as we know some of the sets from the post-Franklin Mint 80s were only struck to about 60% of the authorized number.</p><p><br /></p><p>It is interesting to note that this was a time (1985-2002) where the economy in Britain and Jamaica were not very strong - to say the least - and the designs of at least the Jamaica coins VERY UGLY with poorly done and boring renditions of National Heroes taking the place of the formerly beautiful wildlife and plantlife designs.</p><p><br /></p><p>Anyway, if anybody has other information, please feel free to pitch in![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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