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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;green18, post: 1319027, member: 10103&quot;]Regarding those &quot;special year&quot; coins IzzysMom, they&#039;re not particularly valuable unless you can find someone who collects them and would be willing to pay a premium for them.&nbsp; Interesting packaging though.</p><p><br /></p><p>The mint and proof sets you list are fairly common and don&#039;t command much money.&nbsp; On the &#039;79 set check for &quot;clear s&quot;, &quot;filled s&quot;.&nbsp; The clear s is the more rare and valuable set.&nbsp; Same thing with the &#039;81 set.&nbsp; The 1965 set is a &quot;Special mint set&quot;.&nbsp; Some think it&#039;s a cross between a mint and a proof coin.&nbsp; To achieve the highly polished effect of the coins the mint polished the dies rather than the planchets.&nbsp; The &#039;43 silver cents are actually zinc coated steel.</p><p><br /></p><p>Edit:&nbsp; One more thing.&nbsp; You will do well to pick up a copy of A Guide Book of United States Coins (The Red Book) by R. S. Yeoman.&nbsp; The local public library should have a few copies, but you&#039;ll want to have a copy for yourself I&#039;m sure.&nbsp; They&#039;re fairly reasonable in price.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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