1954 - 1958 Double Mint Sets
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The two sets on the lower right of the photo are 1956 and thus have only 2, not 4, half dollars.
The set missing a half dollar and a quarter is a 1958 set. The two missing coins have been graded. True views of those two coins are:
Absolutely love the look of true original sets, @SanctionII. The sulfur in the cardboard holders makes for some vivid and colorful toning.
I agree. These two coins have vivid color.
The vast majority of these sets have had multiple coins replaced or are over baked to the point of ugly toning. I'd rescue the rest of the original coins by separating them from the cardboard, keeping everything.
These look divine. The four WQs from the upper right set look like they could be stunners.
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There are some individual coins in these sets that are very eye appealing and worthy of a trip to the slab factory. My long distance cell phone photo does not show off the coins very well.
Great looking sets!
They are only getting scarcer. I've got a small stash myself but I haven't taken them out and admired them in quite a while.
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Just curious, what is a decent price to pay for one of these sets?
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It depends on the year. As it is with Proof sets, the number of sets issued goes up and the prices go down as the years passed.
Here is 2/3 of a 1949 Mint Set I bought for my birth year. It's okay, but not great, and I bought it at the height of the market, of course. A great many of these sets have had the best coins pulled out and sent in for grading with substitute coins taking their place. That might be one of the reasons why the bids dropped. I wish the mint had issued a 1949 Proof set. I could have avoided this.
When I was a dealer, I learned that you really had to follow this market to do it right. Pricing was dependent upon the coins in the sets, not the Grey sheet numbers. I left that market to the experts who were deep into it.
@SanctionII ... Those are great looking sets. I see some at a local gun show, but the guy wants exorbitant prices for them. Cheers, RickO
Perfect pumpkin orange coins for October! Of course the Halloween season has been running since late July in stores, bleeding in with Christmas.
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@Meltdown , that is a beautiful 1958 set. I also haven’t looked at my sets in a while. I should get them out and take a look.
I've seen a lot of these sets where coins were switched. You really need to be careful.
@streeter, yes- you need to be very careful before you purchase any of these so called original sets. A lot of put together sets will have bright new coins placed in original cardboard holders and envelopes. Do your homework and become comfortable with what an original set looks like. Good hunting!
Not all of the silver coins in these mint sets are darkly toned. Years ago I bought five 1954 sets that had never been opened. The coins were quite nice and not deeply toned. I still have one of the sets and need to dig it out and photograph it.
@BillJones, absolutely some of the coins are not deeply toned. All I’m saying is that there are sets on the market now that are there to deceive. Even supposedly sealed sets can be faked. I’m not saying yours are, but I’ve even seen sealed proof sets that when opened, had low quality proof coins inside an absolutely wrong poly holder. Looked real to someone who wouldn’t know that the border and inner seals had a certain crimping on them. Also the envelopes had a wrong color look to them.
I know that these sets were not opened because of the circumstances surrounding them. When I bought them sealed, the post mark was 1955. The dealer from whom I purchased them thought that they were 1955 sets. I took them do a dealer friend, who was the greatest expert on modern U.S. coinage that I have ever known. He said, "I'll bet you that they are 1954s because the post mark date." Sure enough when we opened them, they were 1954 mint sets, which are worth more than the 1955 sets.
1955-1958 sets and an earlier 1951
Does anybody know the normal grade range for these Double mint sets?
66s seem to be the most prevalent with a sprinkling of 67s. Then the outliers go in both directions of course
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