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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 1193492, member: 66&quot;]It would depend on the year of the set.&nbsp; Stuff from the 60&#039;s and 70&#039;s probably won&#039;t average much more than MS-63.&nbsp; Stuff from the 80&#039;s might make 65.&nbsp; In the late 80&#039;s or early 90&#039;s they began using more care, higher pressures and they retired the dies earlier (and sent them on to make production coinage.)&nbsp; On these 65&#039;s and better was common, and 67&#039;s were possible.&nbsp; In the 2000&#039;s through 2004 67&#039;s were not too unusual and 68&#039;s or 69&#039;s were sometimes possible.&nbsp; 2005 was an odd year.&nbsp; They had problems with the introduction of the satin finish.&nbsp; Quality of strike and marks is quite good because even greater care went into the striking and handling, but the satin finish varied from none to fully satin.&nbsp; The satin finish coins ten to be high grade 67&#039;s or so.&nbsp; The non-satin finish also are high grade but since &quot;all&quot; of the mint set coins for this year are satin finish they get graded as extremely high quality BUSINESS strike coins and command much more money than they would if they were &quot;mint set coins&quot;.&nbsp; The satin finish 2006 - 2010 coins are uniformly high grade 67 - 69.&nbsp; What the 2011&#039;s will be like now that they have gotten rid of the sating finish I do not know.</p><p><br /></p><p>Since the average business strikes receive no special care they tend to be low end MS, 60 - 63 material.&nbsp; (This includes the roll and bag sets sold by the mint.)&nbsp; Since the 70&#039;s most high end &quot;business strikes&quot; that you see probably are actually mint set coins.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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