1980 proof set ?..
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I don’t understand how this is possible when all proofs were made in San Francisco that year and the reason y my aunt cut the prof set was because the penny had no mint mark n she knew it was worth money so now I have the rest in the proof plastic and am confused on the value aswell the quarter has no mint what so ever. Everyone I’ve spoke with that there is no such thing please help
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Just part of a cut up Mint Set - nothing special.
Is your aunt @Vicky247 by any chance?
Nope
OK. In any case, it's important for you to understand that there are many people who believe they know about coins that actually don't know anything. Your aunt sounds like one of those people. She may be a lovely person, but you probably shouldn't believe anything she tells you about coins unless you can verify it for yourself.
Your coins are regular uncirculated coins from a U.S. Mint Set (they are not proofs). You can search sold items on eBay to see what the entire 1980 Mint Set sells for, as well as the individual coins.
You have part of a "mint set" aka uncirculated coin set issued by the mint. Proof sets for that year were in hard plastic cases.
Proof sets came in the soft plastic packs until the mid 1960s. After that it has been hard plastic cases.
Howdy and welcome.
Your post seems mighty familiar to many of us because we get these kind of questions asked pretty frequently and the answers are almost always the same. In this case, you do not have a partial US proof set, but instead have a partial US mint set. The coins should be from Philadelphia and should be uncirculated. There was/is nothing unusual about the set or the coins.
Good luck with learning more about coins.
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1980 PROOF sets look like this. You have an uncirculated mint set
You state the quarter has no mint, but I clearly see a P mintmark as on all the other coins in the set. The Cent that your aunt saved didn't have a mintmark because Philadelphia didn't use a mintmark on cents except for 2017.
Starting in 1968, all of the Proof sets were struck at the San Francisco Mint. All of the coins have the “S” mint mark, and they are housed in a hard plastic holder. As the others have said, you have a mint set which made of regular issue coins what packed in flexible plastic.
Starting in 1979 with the Susan B. Anthony Dollar and then in 1980 all coins from the Philadelphia Mint have a "P" mint mark except the Cent. Your aunt is right about the Cent not having a mint mark but it's not rare or worth a lot of money.