1964 US Mint Set - New York World's Fair - Hall of Education

StrikeOutXXX

Found this at a coin show yesterday - haven't seen it before. There is one completed sale ($59.99) and one for sale ($50) on eBay right now, so I don't think it's exceedingly valuable, but thought it was different. A little bit of nice color on the quarter and cent obverse but don't think they're super gemmy or worth grading.

Anyone know how these were assembled, i.e., where there source coins came from?

Anyone ever try to put together a complete set of the various US/World coins & medals in the pamphlet? Post them if you have any too.

AMRC

I would like to order the 22K JFKs please.

Meltdown

Neat. I pick up stray items like that all the time just for the fun factor.

ricko

Nice acquisition.... Odd sets like this interest me....Some I buy, some I pass...Cheers, RickO

carabonnair

I used to have one of the Coins of Israel sets from this.

Smudge

Quarter looks nice.

northcoin

@StrikeOutXXX said:
Found this at a coin show yesterday - haven't seen it before. There is one completed sale ($59.99) and one for sale ($50) on eBay right now, so I don't think it's exceedingly valuable, but thought it was different. A little bit of nice color on the quarter and cent obverse but don't think they're super gemmy or worth grading.

Anyone know how these were assembled, i.e., where there source coins came from?

Anyone ever try to put together a complete set of the various US/World coins & medals in the pamphlet? Post them if you have any too.

Very interesting. I was at the 1964 New York World's Fair (as a Boy Scout returning from a National Jamboree) and that would have been cool to have acquired at the time.

CoinCrazyPA

Nice set, that nickel has some green growing off of it.

Timbuk3

Cool, wish I could pick up a few at those prices !!!

291fifth

The coins are little more than melt or face value if not silver. The holder may add a small premium. The eBay offering/selling prices are way too high. (I wouldn't want to be trying to resell the one that sold for $59.99.)

RichR

I grew up down the street from the 1964 Fair site (which also hosted the 1949 Fair).

StrikeOutXXX

@CoinCrazyPA said:
Nice set, that nickel has some green growing off of it.

Yea, it's going to need to come out and soak in acetone for awhile. Funny thing is - can't remember if it was the sold one or the one for sale on eBay but their nickle has the same thing.> @291fifth said:

The coins are little more than melt or face value if not silver. The holder may add a small premium. The eBay offering/selling prices are way too high. (I wouldn't want to be trying to resell the one that sold for $59.99.)

Yea... I didn't buy it for the coins themselves, just thought it was neat and different. I'm a sucker for those types of things. I like to get stuff like this, study/learn about it/them then eventually when my neat box gets too full, if it sells for only $25 I'm still ahead of the game. When I got home and couldn't find any old posts here or really much online, thought a few folks would enjoy seeing it.

I'm really curious what some of the other pieces on the pamphlet looked like and how this company got the coins to go in these sets - if they broke up normal mint sets, got rolls/bags of each denomination through normal channels and put them together, or if there was any sort of tie-in to the mint at all (unlikely).