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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cladking, post: 196628, member: 68&quot;]There are a lot of questions here and the answers can be complicated and interwoven.&nbsp; I&#039;ll try to provide a general overview of the mint state coins as are made for circulation and mint sets.&nbsp; I look at these from the perspective of the clad coins when not specifically stated otherwise. </p><p><br /></p><p>Mint state coins are struck a single time.&nbsp; They tend to be banged up and most </p><p>strikes tend to be very poor on the earlier moderns.&nbsp; Dies are often highly eroded</p><p>and exert little pressure.&nbsp; These coins were very poorly saved in most cases and</p><p>much of the reason is that they are so poor quality.&nbsp; Mint set coins were struck to</p><p>a much higher standard.&nbsp; They are struck by new dies and at lower speeds.&nbsp; Coins</p><p>are usually a little more carefully handled.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Mint sets, too, were generally ignored because people just never used to care </p><p>anything about the new coins.&nbsp; It was not widely known that mint set coins were </p><p>superior because people weren&#039;t looking and the mint has always simply called </p><p>them uncirculated and said they are made by the same process as other coins.</p><p>While technically true this can be misleading.&nbsp; Many of the mint and proof sets have </p><p>been destroyed over the years and the coins placed in circulation.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Mint set production is a small fraction of regular production.&nbsp; Even though mint set </p><p>dies are swapped out frequently there are still very few of these dies compared to</p><p>regular production dies.&nbsp; This means that there will be few varieties which appear </p><p>in the sets.&nbsp; Indeed, most varieties do not appear in the sets at all and they can be</p><p>rare in circulation due to attrition and degradation.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Much of the demand for moderns is to seek varieties so collectors prefer rolls if</p><p>they exist.&nbsp; Those seeking gems tend to prefer the mint sets if the coin exists in</p><p>mint sets at all.&nbsp; It should be remembered that numerous moderns do not exist in</p><p>mint sets such as all the &#039;82 and &#039;83 coinage.&nbsp; This applies to most varieties as well.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Prices are set by supply and demand.&nbsp; Demand tends to be very paltry compared </p><p>to demand for older coins.&nbsp; This demand shows up mostly in the very high grades </p><p>because it is only here that supply is even smaller than the little demand.&nbsp; It also </p><p>shows up to a more limited degree in the scarcer varieties.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s ironic that some of these rolls are excessively scarce but command very little </p><p>price.&nbsp; A roll like a 1971 dime roll is virtually unavailable at any price but the price is</p><p>tiny because of the lack of demand.&nbsp; These rolls, if you can find one, tend to be of</p><p>horrendous quality.&nbsp; With most of these early rolls it&#039;s a safe bet that when you find</p><p>one it was actually assembled from mint sets.&nbsp; Most of these coins go to build up </p><p>sets of the various denominations.&nbsp; These sets tend to be good sellers but it can be</p><p>difficult to locate all the coins needed for them so they aren&#039;t seen widely.</p><p><br /></p><p>Mint set quality is highly variable from year to year and from coin to coin.&nbsp; Finding</p><p>nice issues to build sets can be challenging even for one set much less wholesale quan-</p><p>tities.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ll try any more question if you can break them down a little.&nbsp; I&#039;m sure this doesn&#039;t fully answer even one of your questions and there may be others with a different perspective.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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