What Are Mint Sets?

What Is Mint Sets?

United States Mint Sets are completed sets of uncirculated coins bent by a particular mint that year. The sets confine one coin of each denomination, in the first minted prepare.

For example, each year's mint coin set contains a currency, nickel, dime, district, half dough, and dough coin minted in that year. All coins may not have been produced each year and some may have been made with more than one invent, so your coin set may not delimit every denomination listed above or it could surround more than one of a particular denomination.

An example would be the 50 disarray quarters. The mint coin sets from the days the quarters were made will contain five quarters, one of each of the five states represented that particular year.

Unlike evidence coin sets, the coins limited in uncirculated sets are not minted with any unique condition considerations. They are the average coins that are planned for circulation that are expressly packaged by the mint for collectors. Except, these coins are UNCIRCULATED.

Mint Sets were first existing by the United States Mint in 1947, and from 1947 to 1958, the U.S. Mint included two coins of each denomination. These coins were mounted in cardboard holders. In 1950, however, no coin sets were issued.

In 1959, the U.S. Mint began using fake envelops, to help field the coins. At that time they began only including one coin of each denomination in the coin sets.

During the living 1965 through 1967, SMS (unique mint sets) were issued. The coins in these sets were packaged in elite synthetic cases, and were quicker to proof coin class.

In 1976, a unique three chunk bicentennial set was released besides the reliable copy coin set. The three section set limited the Bicentennial section, half money, and dollar made with 40 percent silver. The habitual set for 1976 also contains these coins, but they are made with a combination of nickel and copper.

Official coin sets were not released by the U.S. Mint in 1982 and 1983.

Proof coin sets are also approved coin sets from United States Mint excluding that the coins enclosed in each yearly set are all proof coins.

Collectors can order these coin sets for the modern year on the U.S. Mint's website.