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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;CamaroDMD, post: 1900008, member: 5233&quot;]If you are going to do a set...quarters or something and want the silver coins too.&nbsp; Consider including an example of the high speed press 40% BU silver coins in the set.&nbsp; They are a lesser known variety, but and interesting part of the bicentennial story.</p><p><br /></p><p>Basically, the mint misinterpreted the law for the 40% BU coins.&nbsp; The law stated they had to mint a certain amount of sets by a certain date...but they thought it said they could mint up to that many.&nbsp; They were going to mint less because that&#039;s all they could sell.&nbsp; At the last minute, they realized their error and had to pump out a whole bunch of sets really fast to fulfill the Congressional Bill that authorized the sets.&nbsp; Those are the &quot;high speed press&quot; sets.&nbsp; Typically, the strike quality is poor and the coins look bad.</p><p><br /></p><p>You can distinguish a regular set from a high speed set based on the original mint packaging of the set.&nbsp; The normal set has a white stripe down the side of the package, the high speed sets do not.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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