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Message:: [QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 1638158, member: 112"]When I collected US coins I had all of the original Mint Sets going back to '49 and the Proofs back to '50. The Mint Sets are fairly easy to obtain back to '54, the Proofs to '53. But in years of searching I was never able to find a '47 or '48 Mint Set, and I was only ever to find 1 example of a '41 Proof Set, but it popped up at a time when I just didn't have the cash to buy it. The '36-'41 Proof Sets are especially difficult because very few were sold by the mint as complete sets. Back then most people bought the coins individually, not as sets. I have never actually known anyone who had them all. I'm sure that over the years there must have been somebody out there who accomplished the task, but I never heard of them if there was.[/QUOTE]