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Message:: [QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 158136, member: 112"]Prior to '71, Proof sets with cameo coins were not the norm - they were scarce even. The mint just didn't go to the same lengths to ensure that the Proof coins had cameo devices. After '71 the number of Proof sets with cameo coins started increasing. By '78 almost all Proof sets had cameo coins. So to answer your question, yes there have been people who found cameo coins in the so called sealed Proof sets, but the vast majority of them have been sets dated 1978 or later. There have been a few dated back to '71. But I have never even heard of one being found in a set dated prior to '71. The bit about sealed Proof sets or Mint sets is a marketing ploy, nothing more and nothing less. People basically like to gamble, they like to take a chance. Sellers know this so they take advanatage of it. That's why so many "unsearched" grab bags and sealed sets sell so easily on ebay. Most people know this, they tell themselves, yeah this is probably just a scam - but what if it's not ?? I'm gonna buy it anyway, just in case !! If you want to find Proof sets with cameo coins, go search them out by looking at them and buy them one by one. It can be done, but it takes an awful lot of searching. It will not be done by buying "sealed" sets.[/QUOTE]