Mint Sets In...mint Sets Out. Argh.

If you had a hundred rolls of 1969 quarters and one roll of mint set 1969 quarters the best ten coins would be from mint sets. 39 or 40 of the best strikes would be from mint sets depending on luck of the draw.

I'm certainly not disagreeing with you but merely pointing out that usually you can positively identify a coin as either being from a mint set or regular issue. In practice you can usually tell with fairly good regularity but once they're out of the mint set you can't really be sure most of the time.

Finding Gems in mint sets is like shooting fish in a barrel. Finding them in rolls can be almost impossible and is always difficult.

I have never wanted a refund, simply replacements. But they refund the money when they receive the returns then turn around and re charge for the new items going out (absolutely stupid way of doing it IMO) and that goes right on in.

I got my replacements yesterday, and while there were still some coins that made me growl, much better on the whole. I went ahead and cut open one set for the Danscos and the other went into the storage box.

Now to straighten out the mess with the returned silver proof sets. *sigh*