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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cladking, post: 771468, member: 68&quot;]The mint has made numerous conflicting statements about the mint set coins.&nbsp; The fact is that since 1965 a great deal of extra care has gone into making them.&nbsp; They use the old numismatic presses set at slower speeds and new dies.&nbsp; Extra tonnage is applied and the coins are washed and dried. Sometimes extra care is taken with the dies and in recent years and in the &#039;60&#039;s polished planchets were sometimes used.&nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>The only difference with the satin finish coins is that the dies are plated with chrome.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Mint statements about these coins seem to depend largely on which department was making them but it was 1997 before the mint finally admitted these sets are different.&nbsp; It&#039;s almost as though they were waiting for someone to notice.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Tom Delorey once had an article in Coinage magazine that suggested that these were the mint&#039;s &quot;secret coins&quot;.&nbsp; He was actually able to tour part of the area where these were made and report but no photos were allowed through most of it.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve been watching these sets since the mid-70&#039;s and find each and every one to be just fascinating.&nbsp; Many people would look at them and wonder why anyone would care since most of the coins are banged up but try finding these same coins from BU rolls.&nbsp; No one set many aside so it&#039;s too late now but the coins in the rolls were not only banged up but they were poorly made by worn dies.&nbsp; You could find gems in circulation but finding them in mint sets would be comparable to shooting fish in a barrel.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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