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JeffersonFrog

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stephunter

I know this doesn't help, but I bought a box of 250 nickels with the same packaging in eBay about 5 years ago.

coindeuce

All post Mint private packaging and markings. From 1943 - 1949, the U.S. Mint did not offer single coins by subscription.

The Mint resumed selling uncirculated sets of coins post WWII in 1947, when the first packaging of 26 coin "double" Mint sets commenced.

The silver Commemorative half dollars of 1946 (Iowa and B.T. Washington), 1947 (B.T. Washington) and

1948 (B.T. Washington) were sold as singles or as P-D-S sets in packaging that the sponsors of the authorizing legislation provided for the sales through those special interest groups, mostly utilizing commercial savings banks as the outlets for distribution.



The cellophane sleeves and Kraft paper envelopes were very popular in the 1940's and 1950's as a storage method because they were much less expensive than and more compact than other storage devices like Wayte Raymond albums or Meghrig boards.



The cursive notation on the 2x2 envelope with the name Bebee is interesting. Perhaps purchased from Audrey & Adeline Bebee of numismatic fame ?

BG

Link to Bebee Coin & Stamp is below:



Bebee

jmski52

It looks like good documentation by a meticulous collector from the early '50s. I'm familiar with the acetate sleeves, and I had some of them when I started collecting in the early '60s. Looks like he bought a roll from Bebee in Feb. 1950 and broke it up into individual coins.

LindeDad

Originally posted by: BG

Link to Bebee Coin & Stamp is below:



Bebee

MY fire wall says don't go there!!!!!

ricko

Link was OK on my system (McAfee Security).... interesting article...Cheers, RickO

guitarwes

That Nickel looks like it's a pretty purple.

291fifth

It looks to me like a collector put one of his nickels from a roll into a paper 2x2 and marked it as to it original source and date acquired. At some later date either this owner or a later one added the US Treasury notation with a typewriter in order to create the illusion that it came from the Treasury itself in this packaging.

AMRC

My first thought was that it came out of Mint Set and repackaged from there, but the 2/50 and the $2.50 roll kind of squashed that. So it is the second of fifty, that was part of $2.50 roll? That looks like they broke up the roll, and in production style, repackaged for distribution/sale.

JeffersonFrog

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291fifth

Originally posted by: JeffersonFrog
Thanks everyone. The Bebee article is a neat little snapshot I was not expecting. The coin is a pretty gunmetal blue/purple and has very clean fields, but unfortunately has the very mushy pillars/steps similar to early 50's San Francisco Jeffs. It is probably a 64, maybe a 65, but still a very pretty BU example (IMO). Based on the thoughts you provided, I'm going with someone bought a roll of 50 Jeffs from the BeBee's, broke each one out for resale, and put them in 2x2 brown paper envelopes. The typewritten U.S Treasury is anyone's guess - it seems like a lot of work for something that probably sold for less than a dollar. Thanks again.

Typewritten notations on envelopes were very common in the 1950's and earlier. It is not unusual to see low value coins in such envelopes. Some of the department store coin departments did this.