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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cladking, post: 2204696, member: 68&quot;]19Lyds got it right but it needs clarification. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Mint set dies and circulation dies are distinct populations.&nbsp;&nbsp; Mint sets are specially prepared and this starts at the die stage.&nbsp; While the dies may not differ much in all cases each year they are still separate groups of dies.&nbsp; No circulation die will be used to strike mint sets but some mint set dies will be used to strike circulation issues.&nbsp; Since we&#039;re talking about die varieties here there is almost no chance that a variety made for circulation will show upin mint sets.&nbsp; It can work the other way around though and the &#039;70-S sm dt cent may be an example of a coin struck from retired mint set dies for circulation. If a die doesn&#039;t appear in a large group of mint sets then there&#039;s almost no chance it will appear in an even larger group.&nbsp; If you find one variety in a mint set then there will be many more.&nbsp; Perhaps one of the scarcest varities is the &#039;81-P type &quot;c&quot; reverse quarter that appears in about every 160th set.&nbsp; Most mint set varieties are more common with the sm dt cent appearing in 10% of sets.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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