I know that the proof set with no S on the dime is extremely rare but does that same hold true for a mint set? There's also no S on the quarter!
It says right on the token they are Philadelphia coins. Why do you think a mintmark should be there? Mint sets were not made for SF mint, only Denver and Philadelphia.
one of the cents has an s mintmark. i would suspect but not entirely certain there will be an s mint nickle in the denver cello.
Looks like someone cut out the 40% half and replaced it with a penny. I would look for cut marks around the MM cent. Your set is missing the half dollar, its not original from the mint. Someone has messed with it.
So what was in the spot? Another mint medal? I apologize that I didn't know there was not a Philly half that year. Either way, it looks like a messed with set. A mintmarked cent almost physically could not have been in there when it left the mint.
In 1968, The Philly cello had two cents, a P and an S. The complete set had only one half dollar, a D. 1c...PDS 5c...PD 10c..PD 25c..PD 50c..D 10 coins in total in the 1968 UC Mint Set
Well, that just goes to show I don't know about these sets. Thanks for straightening me out. So, at least we know this is a Philly set, and MM were not on Philly issues in 1968, right? I hope I didn't screw up that statement.
Don't feel bad. No one can know everything about everything. (please, no remarks about Detecto) Philly did not have a MM.
What was it, like 77 or 78 they started putting them on all Philly issues besides cents? The rest of you can excuse my ignorance of modern US coins.
Why can't I excuse your ignorance of modern US coins? I'm not out to get you, just making the record straight.
I really appreciate the responses and input. The only thing I'm certain about is that the set has not been tampered with. 1968 sure seemed like a strange year for mint sets.
I agree, you can see how I screwed it up. I believe bottom line sir is only the cent was supposed to have any mintmark on what you photographed. I know it seems strange today, but except for the war nickels, no coin from Philadelphia carried a mintmark from 1792 until the late 70's. This is because Philly was "the" mint of the US, the largest and most important for decades. Its coins were never mintmarked because it was assumed a coin was struck there. Other mints had mintmarks to show they weren't struck in Philly.
Well rick is the closest to being right so far, he has just made one error. In the 1968 mint set the Denver sheet will have a 1968 D nickel in it but the Philadelphia sheet will NOT have a 1968 nickel in it. It will have a 1968 S nickel. Philadelphia did not make halves or nickels in 1968, 69, or 70. So the mint sets for those three years have five coins cent thru half dollar in the Denver page all with D mintmarks, and the Philadelphia page has a no mintmark cent, dime, and quarter, and an S mintmarked cent and nickel. 1980
