Product Description
1958 PROOF SET: The U.S. Mint would produce just 875,652 proof sets in 1958. In the following decades, annual mintages increased and would not fall under 1958's production figure until 2012 — 54 years later! As the year's Franklin half dollar proof could only be found in this set, intact issues have been split up by collectors and dealers seeking individual specimens which further affects an already-low mintage.
1961 PROOF SET: Now over six decades old, this is the least costly five-coin proof set of its vintage. Produced by the Philadelphia Mint, it was one of the last regular proof sets to include three 90% silver denominations (dime, quarter and half dollar) before the precious metal was removed from U.S. coinage. Like the 1958 set offered above, many have since been broken apart to obtain the coveted Franklin proof.
1978 PROOF SET: While popular with collectors, the cumbersome Ike dollar was just plain impractical for everyday use and was expensive for the U.S. Mint to produce. After only eight years of minting, in 1978 the last traditionally-sized American dollar series was discontinued. The year's 1978 clad collector's set would be home to the last Eisenhower proofs struck; in this format, none were issued outside of the six-coin set.
Please note that vintage sets are not always available in original packaging.