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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 1292813, member: 66&quot;]I purchased a 1938 set from the original owner who ordered it from the mint.&nbsp; It was still in the original packaging.&nbsp; But I think that is the only original set from that era I have ever seen.</p><p><br /></p><p>You have to remember that a lot of the proofs from that era were probably not sold as sets.&nbsp; Up through 1942 collectors could order the individual coins and that is probably how most of them were sold.&nbsp; The &quot;sets&quot; mintage you see in the reference books is the lowest mintage of the individual coins.&nbsp; It is a theoretical maximum number of sets that could be assembled.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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