1996 United States Mint Set - 11pc - with W Dime

Over the last month we have seen the U.S. Mint create special W-Mint Mark coins that have become some of the most sought after pieces in recent memory! We figured what better time to bring back the special-release collection set that had the Original W-Mint Mark coin: the 1996 U.S. Mint Set!

Experts agree the finest business strike coins released by the United States Mint each year are in the Official Uncirculated Set - otherwise known as The U.S. "Mint Set". Over the past half-century they have been one of the U.S. Mint's most popular collector items, and it is easy to see why! Collector’s fell in love with these Mint Sets because it gave them an opportunity to obtain one of each regular issue coin produced by the United States Mint for circulation during that given year!

Until very recently this 1996 U.S Mint set stood alone amongst its peers. This is because it contained something very special: A Dime that never issued for circulation! But that is not all, this dime immediately became the KEY piece that every Roosevelt collection had to have!

In celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Roosevelt Dime, the United States Mint broke with tradition and included a special West Point ( ‘W’ ) Dime in the 1996 U.S. Mint Set…but the coin was never issued for circulation!

As a result, the 1996 United States Mint Set is the ONLY way to obtain this very rare West Point Mint Roosevelt Dime…and to top it all off, it is the first Roosevelt Dime ever produced by the West Point Mint!

The 1996 West Point Roosevelt Dime is VERY rare….How rare you might be asking?

Well the answer to that is in the numbers: 1996 United States Mint set had a mintage of 1,457,000 total sets produced, and up until 1996 the lowest Minted Roosevelt dime produced by that point was the 1950 San Francisco Dime with a mintage of 20,440,000…crunch the numbers, and you find that the 1996 West Point Roosevelt Dime is 14 times rarer!

It is also the Second Lowest West Point Roosevelt Dime ever Produced! (Second only to the special edition 2014 West Point March of Dimes Release)!