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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 724585, member: 66&quot;]In the 2006 edition it is on page 9 under &quot;Quantities of Coins Struck&quot; the last line says &quot;Proof totals are shown in parentheses, and are not included with coins made for circulation.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>One thing you have to worry about is whether the figures are correct.&nbsp; In earlier editions they were not consistant and sometimes the mintage figures included the proofs and you had to subtract the proof figure to get the actual mintage sometimes they didn&#039;t.&nbsp; In later years they screwed up again and the mintage figures are still messed up.&nbsp; Check the figures for the Ike dollars and see what they say for the 1971 - 74 40% silver Ikes.</p><p><br /></p><p>In the 1980&#039;s the mintage figures for most of the coins in book were the total mintage and you had to subtract the proof mintage to get the business strike mintage, but on the Ike dollars the mintage was NOT the combined total.&nbsp; it was just th business strikes and you did not have to subtract out the proof mintage (They did a few other series that way as well.)&nbsp; Then around 2000 they went through the book and separated the proof and business strike mintages so you no longer had to subtract out the proofs yourself.&nbsp; Problem was on the Ikes they went ahead and subtracted the proof mintage from the business strike mintage when they didn&#039;t have to.&nbsp; So now in my 2006 edition it shows the Unc mintage of the 1972-S 40% silver to be 381,425.&nbsp; The real mintage was 2,193,056.&nbsp; This type of error occurs on some other series as well.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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