Unusual! Note from Superintendant of the Mint found in mint set UPDATE WITH SOMETHING EVEN COOLER!!
georgiacop50
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I say unusual because I have seen a plethora of 1959-1964 mint sets but don't recall seeing this note before. This was in a 1961 set.
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Cool, I've never seen one before either !!!
I have never seen this before, have to say items such as this I love the most.
Doubt many of these were saved, very cool.
POST NUBILA PHOEBUS / AFTER CLOUDS, SUN
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That's a keeper.
I had to read it twice to figure out what it meant. The treasurer was handing sales off to the Philly mint.
This type of insert appears occasionally, but it's a neat reminder of communication a half-century ago.
I do have 1961 proof set with a note about the packaging of the coins, tarnish, etc.
I have never seen this note.
TD
Not necessarily a note from the Superintendent, rather it was likely issued by the Treasury.
Either the Treasury no longer wanted to do mail order sales in this manner, or the Mint was cutting distribution channels to cut costs or reduce process waste. It likely made sense to do this, because there were so few orders using this method and thus so few of these notes survived.
The real answer may be out there somewhere....
That's a first for me as well.
And I have looked through 2/3 of a plethora, lol
It would seem to be directing the person to address future orders TO the Superintendent rather than the note being penned by him.
interesting find
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Very cool.
Thanks for sharing!
That is the first one I have seen... and I have opened a lot of old sets... maybe the note was just discarded when the sets were first received. Cheers, RickO
Actually 2 updates on this:
1) I have now found 2 additional notes like the one in the OP...all 3 found in 1961 Mint Sets.
2) I have come across a 1963 Mint Set that contains an Order Acknowledgement with an order number matching the order number on the Treasury mailer.
Folks I can confidently say I have handled upwards of 1000 1963 mint sets and NEVER seen an Order Acknowledgement before, with or without the outer mailer.
Has anyone ever seen one of these in a mint set before??
I suspect that was sent to the buyer well before the sets were shipped, and the collector slipped it in there when he received the sets.
When I started ordering from the mint in 1971, it was a months-long process.
Bump for consideration in the thread about Mint sets with two different kinds of tokens in them.
No I have not.
Both documents look computer printed on multi-part forms. Would have been very, very high tech for 1963.
Likely they would have mailed the acknowledgment as soon as the order was entered. Then used the top part as the mailing label when the set was ready a few weeks later (note the May 64 date on one and the Apr 8, 1963 postmark).
M. Weiss likely put the acknowledgment in a pending file and then filed it in with the set when s/he received it.
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