Can We Reassemble Classic Proof Sets?

ollecting proof sets today is relatively easy. There are millions produced and sold each year, and for the past few decades there have been special versions made with silver coins that are the same silver-copper alloy as the pre-1965 circulating coins. Even if a collector is new to the field, it’s not too tough to find a well-stocked dealer or go online and find any of the proof sets that we need. But proof sets were not always packaged this way. Back in 1950, when the current Mint program for producing proof sets got under way, people tended to collect by adding individual coins to books, filling