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<p>[QUOTE="cladking, post: 153938, member: 68"]It seems people have been counting on the existence of mint sets to assure the existence of</p><p>modern coins into the indefinite future but these sets are so incredibly cheap that few survive</p><p>and nearly half of moderns simply never appeared in mint sets. Even those which are available </p><p>can be utterly destroyed by the mint set packaging. Try to find a 1968-P US cent in a mint set</p><p>without carbon spots. They're all spotted and more than 95% look awful because of it. The </p><p>mint set packing is usually four layers of plastic bonded together and the inner layers are soft.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="cladking, post: 153938, member: 68"]It seems people have been counting on the existence of mint sets to assure the existence of modern coins into the indefinite future but these sets are so incredibly cheap that few survive and nearly half of moderns simply never appeared in mint sets. Even those which are available can be utterly destroyed by the mint set packaging. Try to find a 1968-P US cent in a mint set without carbon spots. They're all spotted and more than 95% look awful because of it. The mint set packing is usually four layers of plastic bonded together and the inner layers are soft.[/QUOTE]
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