Opinions on Mint sets from 68-72

clackamas

What has been the experience of others with Mint sets from these years? I am trying to find for my own personal collection an MS67 1968 Ken half and put together a top set for 1971 (My wifes birth year). I have the #1 1968 set but it could use some improvement. I have purchased OBW rolls for these years with some success but I just can't get those top coins from rolls. Is it worth the premium to be buying mint sets?

topstuf

Does "time" have any value?

cupronik

Clackamas:

You'll have to sort through numerous sets to find the right coins.
I have not found a satisfactory 71-P 50c or 69-D 50c (MS-66/+)
from the mint sets. MS-66RD 1c can be found but MS-67RD's not
(except for 68-S, 70-P, 71-P, perhaps.)

When I say "numerous" I mean 100's.

Hey, what's with the UO Duck logo????

GO BEAVS!!!!!!!

cladking

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There's virtually no alternative if you're looking for dimes and quarters. You can find a few
rolls of the '68, '69-D, '70, '70-D, '71-D, and '72-D dimes, and the '68-D, '69-D, '70-D, '72 and
'72-D quarters but they are very elusive and for the main part they are poor quality. All of
the cents, nickels, and halfs are available by the roll but mostly these, too, will be low quality.
This especially applies to the pre-'70 rolls. If you can find sources for the rolls then you may
want to go ahead and look, but with a premium of a dollar or twoo per roll, it can get pretty
expensive pretty quick.

40% halfs are getting extremely tough to find in the mint sets without tarnish. The '68 is
particularly bad. These were tough to find nice in the set even before the lion's share went
bad. Rolls are a viable alternative for these but it will take some effort.

Clad halfs aren't too tough. Figure you'll need about 150 of the '71, and 50 of the '72 to find
nice gems.

The sets are OK for all the cents except the '68-S. You'll need a lot of the '69 and '72 sets.
Finding some of these clean is tough. Nickels are a bear if you want FS. Forget the '68 and '69
('69-S is doable though). You'll need about 1,500 of the '70 sets, 200 '71, and 100 '72 to get gems.

Dimes and quarters are both fairly easy and you'll need between 20 and 150 to find the gems.

While gems are available in the rolls, these will usually not be very well struck. Mint set coins
have far better strikes but most are marked up.

DHeath

Cladking's numbers are good, as always. I've put a few Washingtons in 67 holders, and a few halves in 66 holders, but they were cherrypicked from mint sets over a few years (lots of sets). I submitted some of my personal collection a few years ago. I looked for the early half invoice but didn't find it. These were all mint set coins.