A lot of people just starting out in coin collecting ask these proverbial questions:

What is a mint set?

Is it anything like a proof set?

While the latter will to be answered in a different article, the answer to the former can be found right here.

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There's a lot of talk about "mint" whenever you're discussing coins and coin collections.

Some examples:

First, there's the U.S. Mint, which is the federal agency responsible for the production and distribution of our Nation's coinage.

Then, there are mint coins (or mint condition coins) which refers to a coin that is in practically the same condition as when it left the mint.

And then you have mint sets which are collections of uncirculated coins for a particular year. (It includes one uncirculated coin of each denomination from each mint that produced the denomination during that year.)

And finally, you have mint marks (also spelled mintmarks)...