| Not only was its 1,691,602 million mintage the lowest for U.S. proof sets in the 1960's, no regular set mintage since has been so small. And a good number of 1960 proof sets were broken up by dealers to obtain sought-after individual Franklin silver half dollar proofs, which were issued only as part of complete 5-coin proof sets. Today higher-mintage recent U.S. proof sets sell for considerably more. Crisp double-struck engravings on dazzling mirror-finish coin blanks.
|
