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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 265976, member: 112&quot;]Correct, because the coins in the mint sets have a different finish than the business strikes. So there will be no gems from the Mint sets to compete with the higher grade business strikes.</p><p><br /></p><p>It used to be you only had 2 classes of coins - Proof and business strikes. The coins in the annual mint sets <u>might be</u> of a higher quality but they had the same finish as the business strikes. So you could not tell one from the other once the coins were removed from the mint sets. That is no longer true. So now there are 3 classes of coins - Proof, Specimen and business strike.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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