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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 3559896, member: 66&quot;]You&#039;re thinking of the 40% silver sets.&nbsp; Their mintage figure was mandated by congress, the mintages of the clad proof sets were not and the mintage were the result of demand simply from the number of sets ordered.&nbsp; The Mandate for the silver sets WAS way too high, and they made the mistake of REQUIRING the authorized mintage to be struck.&nbsp; So at the end of 1975 they had to hurriedly strike millions of sets which were stored and then six years or so later melted down.&nbsp; (The mint didn&#039;t keep good records and even today&nbsp; they do not have an &quot;official&quot; mintage figure, just an estimated one.)&nbsp; After that they learned to specify a maximum mintage but did not require the authorized mintage to be struck.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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