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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Troodon, post: 217403, member: 4626&quot;]Those are the mintmarks that show where they were minted (for example 1951-D was minted in Denver).&nbsp; Good gift idea... I&#039;ve done this for my father too in fact (but for Christmas, rather than his birthday).&nbsp; The idea was that year I got everyone in the family proof sets from their year of birth.&nbsp; Exceptions were for my father, because a 1951 proof set was prohibitively expensive; and my grandfather (born in 1924) whose birth predated issued proof sets.&nbsp; For them I instead put together sets of reasonable condition for their birth years.&nbsp; If $100 is your limit, you can easily put together an uncirculated or almost uncirculated set for 1951.</p><p><br /></p><p>These make good anniversary gifts too... in fact for my prents&#039; anniversary this year I put a copy of their wedding picture along with coins from a 1974 proof set (their wedding year), replacing the quarter with a Washington state quarter, the state they were married in.&nbsp; Capitol Plastics has a holder that works great for this, a hard plastic holder with holes for coins from 1 cent to half dollar with generous space to put a picture next to them (since their was no space for the Ike dollar, I just put that in my type set.)&nbsp; I&#039;m doing the same thing for my brother who is about to be married as a Christmas gift for him and his wife.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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