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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;johnmilton, post: 24616440, member: 101855&quot;]But Breen claimed that sometimes, the mint would &quot;slip&quot; a Mint State coin into a Proof set if they are run out of the coins. We know that Breen had a habit of making up stories. Still I can&#039;t disprove that because I have seen darn few original sets from 1858 to 1916 era. </p><p><br /></p><p>I had a 1909 set at one time. The silver coins matched. The dealer who sold it to me at the 1976 ANA said that they had come to him in the tissue paper. I wish I could have gotten the tissue paper. </p><p><br /></p><p>On another issue, Rogen Burdette, in his book about the 1936 to 1942 sets, said that the mint melted a lot of sub-par Proof coins. They may have done the same in the early period.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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