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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ClairHardesty, post: 1307918, member: 34169&quot;]Jurkowsky confirmed on the 11th and reconfirmed on the 13th of November, both days after sets were in buyers hands, the second time after consulting with mint manufacturing officials, that the bullion coins in the sets came exclusively from the San Francisco mint. It is entirely possible that the tail feather marker is exclusive to set coins but if it is it is most probably not inclusive of all set coins. It is not made clear which of September and October saw the striking of bullion and/or uncirculated coins, only that all of the coins minted at SF were struck in those two months. This fact makes it entirely possible that the bullion coins all came from a special production run and if that is indeed the case then the die used were probably not used to make any coins sent to APs. Those die, however would have most likely come from normal die production as that has continued as needed to supply bullion production at West Point and there is no reason to believe that any special die were used in the striking of the set bullion coins. The die used to strike the set bullion coins may well have already been in stock at the SF mint or they may have been delivered from their point of production as needed. The only die which could possibly have been used to strike any other than set coins would be the first few pair and the last few pair. Die used in between would have been used exclusively for set coins as the mint no longer reworks die for reuse once they have been removed from service, after striking their fill of coins. Since it does appear quite likely that bullion production for the set was a distinct event, separate from production to fill AP orders, it is equally likely that all of the die pairs used for set coins were retired during or at the completion of the set coin production. There is still no evidence that indicates that the tail feather marker is exclusive to or inclusive of the bullion coins in the anniversary sets.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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