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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cladking, post: 18496, member: 68&quot;]If you ever care to divulge what these two coins are, you&#039;ll certainly have at least one eager listener.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Mint sets are the number one reason that all worldwide coins are often available.&nbsp; Frequently these were made in substantial numbers and prevent many coins from being rare or scarce.&nbsp; By the same token though they have created a sense in most collectors that saving modern coins is of no urgency whatsoever, so half a century has passed and many still aren&#039;t being looked at.&nbsp; But the mint sets are not a panacea they seem for choice examples of all coins from all countries.&nbsp; In many cases they simply weren&#039;t produced at all or did not contain all the circulating issues or varieties.&nbsp; In other cases the sets were poorly packaged and the coins have all turned bad.&nbsp; In most cases these sets were simply not made in the kinds of quantity which assured a supply even to the current day.&nbsp; The sets were usually inexpensive to begin with and then were ignored on the secondary market.&nbsp; As these sets came to market in their countries of origin they were often destroyed for the coins in them.&nbsp; Frequently these coins were simply spent to recover their value.&nbsp; Being extremely inexpensive tends to cause things to experience high attrition rates.&nbsp; Still the mintages are frequently quite modest and hardly sufficient to supply mass markets. </p><p><br /></p><p>While the toughest modern coins are typically ones which don&#039;t appear in the sets, there will be plenty of tough coins that do.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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