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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cladking, post: 7323758, member: 68&quot;]The incidence of Gems I&#039;ve seen in mint sets closely parallels the population reports of the grading companies.&nbsp; Dates with twice as many Gems in sets have twice as many in the pops. </p><p><br /></p><p>The &#039;73 is the exception to this rule.&nbsp; I have never seen a top notch &#039;73 P or D in a mint set.&nbsp; Even though this date should be correlated since all &#039;73 P and D Ikes come from mint sets, it does not fit well.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve seen a couple nice &#039;73-P&#039;s and a &#039;73-D but they are not as nice as most other dates.&nbsp; This is likely coincidence in part because all very high grade Ikes are scarce so the numbers involved are low.&nbsp; Because the &#039;73 are mint set only it&#039;s even possible that other collectors were searching high grades before me but this seems unlikely.</p><p><br /></p><p>Another factor is that this date was always expensive and Gems are scarcer so I probably searched it less diligently than other dates.&nbsp; In any case I can&#039;t show that there are as many Gems in the &#039;73 sets as the pop reports suggest.&nbsp; It&#039;s a very tough date in MS-65 and higher.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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