1976 Bicentennial Silver Uncirculated Set, Souvenir Set

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Anyone familiar with this set? Outer envelope?
Any info would be greatly appreciated.

JBK

Is it original packaging? If so, I assume it was sold at the mint to those who visited in person for the tour, considering the inclusion of the mint medal.

davewesen

I have never seen anything like it - I suspect an aftermarket holder.

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@davewesen said:
I have never seen anything like it - I suspect an aftermarket holder.

I have never seen it, not sure if aftermarket or US Mint souvenir set similar to this,

CaptHenway

Don't know it.

mannie gray

Never seen it before either.

BackroadJunkie

Not my auction:

1976 US Mint Bicentennial Souvenir Set Medal 40% Silver Quarter Half Dollar Ike

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@BackroadJunkie said:
Not my auction:

1976 US Mint Bicentennial Souvenir Set Medal 40% Silver Quarter Half Dollar Ike

Thanks for that link, confirms US Mint.
Purchased one.

WoodenJefferson

This is the first time I've seen this set being offered...not sure if this is a Mint product or after market product. Interesting if this came from the Mint gift shop as I've never seen this token before.

ricko

I have not seen that before.... Sure looks like a Mint product. I wonder if this was from the gift shop. Cheers, RickO

BuffaloIronTail

@ricko said:
I have not seen that before.... Sure looks like a Mint product. I wonder if this was from the gift shop. Cheers, RickO

I think the same thing. I can't think of anywhere else.

Pete

cladking

It is unlikely to be an "official issue" in the traditional sense of the word. The mint sold special sets at at least one coin show that year and this was a 3 piece (with medal) cu/ ni clad bicentennial set at the Texas Numismatic Association show.

I'd guess this set was sold at another show but might well have been packaged by the US Mint. The TNA set came in an envelope that stated it was packaged for the show.

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@cladking said:
It is unlikely to be an "official issue" in the traditional sense of the word. The mint sold special sets at at least one coin show that year and this was a 3 piece (with medal) cu/ ni clad bicentennial set at the Texas Numismatic Association show.

I'd guess this set was sold at another show but might well have been packaged by the US Mint. The TNA set came in an envelope that stated it was packaged for the show.

Thanks cladking!

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Link to this purchase thanks to BackroadJunkie,
Thanks!

davewesen

That red and blue stripe theme has been seen in other 'after market' sets made

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@davewesen said:
That red and blue stripe theme has been seen in other 'after market' sets made

I agree, I have seen these sets before.

Based on this envelope I'm not convinced (yet) that this is an aftermarket product.
I would think that they would need permission to use the names stated, and to use
'US Mint'

WoodenJefferson

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@davewesen said:
That red and blue stripe theme has been seen in other 'after market' sets made

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Based on this envelope I'm not convinced (yet) that this is an aftermarket product.
I would think that they would need permission to use the names stated, and to use
'US Mint'

If the coins, dollar, half and quarter were removed from an official 3 piece Mint product they are just relaying information from the Mint packaging, names are the same, just like an article mentioning Mint officials. I would think perfectly OK. Now if they just took bags of coins and packaged them into sets, that would be different, but the coins used by the Mint for the Bicentennial sets did have a bit, just a bit of special handling.

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@WoodenJefferson said:

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@davewesen said:
That red and blue stripe theme has been seen in other 'after market' sets made

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Based on this envelope I'm not convinced (yet) that this is an aftermarket product.
I would think that they would need permission to use the names stated, and to use
'US Mint'

If the coins, dollar, half and quarter were removed from an official 3 piece Mint product they are just relaying information from the Mint packaging, names are the same, just like an article mentioning Mint officials. I would think perfectly OK. Now if they just took bags of coins and packaged them into sets, that would be different, but the coins used by the Mint for the Bicentennial sets did have a bit, just a bit of special handling.

You make an excellent point.

davewesen

All of the mint made sets I have seen that were sold at conventions or gift shops had a light blue envelope. I am not sure origin really matters, it is an interesting set.

cladking

Curiously I just looked through some souvenir sets and found a couple of two piece (plus medal) sets with souvenir set-like envelopes. These are just the half and quarter. They were apparently mint issue.

CaptHenway

@cladking said:
Curiously I just looked through some souvenir sets and found a couple of two piece (plus medal) sets with souvenir set-like envelopes. These are just the half and quarter. They were apparently mint issue.

Those were sold at the 1975 ANA convention in L.A. I was there.

cladking

@CaptHenway said:

@cladking said:
Curiously I just looked through some souvenir sets and found a couple of two piece (plus medal) sets with souvenir set-like envelopes. These are just the half and quarter. They were apparently mint issue.

Those were sold at the 1975 ANA convention in L.A. I was there.

Cool.

Thanks.

Latari_Numis

Good info here......

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@cladking said:
Curiously I just looked through some souvenir sets and found a couple of two piece (plus medal) sets with souvenir set-like envelopes. These are just the half and quarter. They were apparently mint issue.

I have this too, clad half, quarter, bronze (?)metal with light blue envelope.

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@CaptHenway said:

@cladking said:
Curiously I just looked through some souvenir sets and found a couple of two piece (plus medal) sets with souvenir set-like envelopes. These are just the half and quarter. They were apparently mint issue.

Those were sold at the 1975 ANA convention in L.A. I was there.

Thanks for info.

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@CaptHenway said:

@cladking said:
Curiously I just looked through some souvenir sets and found a couple of two piece (plus medal) sets with souvenir set-like envelopes. These are just the half and quarter. They were apparently mint issue.

Those were sold at the 1975 ANA convention in L.A. I was there.

If I might ask, who was selling these sets?

CaptHenway

Been a while, but as I recall it was the U.S. Mint booth. The dollars had not yet been released, so they did the quarter and the half and a San Francisco Mint medal since the show was in California.

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@CaptHenway said:
Been a while, but as I recall it was the U.S. Mint booth. The dollars had not yet been released, so they did the quarter and the half and a San Francisco Mint medal since the show was in California.

Thank you for info.

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Set I purchased arrived. Did a search for this set and found this, I'm hoping this might spark someone's memory. Also found the letters 'IACOCOA' on obverse of medal.

cladking

I found a couple of these sets as well.

The first is similar to your second set but has a MN 13c stamp. (Aug 25 post mark)

The other has no stamps or post marks at all.

This is starting to ring a bell now. Lee Iacocca was, I believe, chairman of the Chrysler Corporation by about this time. He had something to do with the bicentennial and coins but I don't recall the connection.

cladking

Oops. Found this;

http://articles.mcall.com/1986-04-09/news/2530909_1_silver-bronze-bicentennial-medal

Looks like Michael Iacocca probably designed the medal.

cladking

https://www.usmint.gov/learn/history/historical-documents/first-medal-in-us-customs-series-commemorates-georgetown-customhouse

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@cladking said:
I found a couple of these sets as well.

The first is similar to your second set but has a MN 13c stamp. (Aug 25 post mark)

The other has no stamps or post marks at all.

This is starting to ring a bell now. Lee Iacocca was, I believe, chairman of the Chrysler Corporation by about this time. He had something to do with the bicentennial and coins but I don't recall the connection.

cladking, thanks for the info...

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Found new info, please read description:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/282294303080

BillJones

I opened this old thread when I has doing research for an exhibit at the upcoming Summer FUN show.

I purchaed this 1976-S three piece Uncirculated 40% silver clad Bicentennial set at the 1976 ANA Convention which was held in New York City. I was fortunate enough to have Mint Director, Mary Brooks, autograph the envelope for me.

This was a mint product, not from a third party vendor. I don't know where else it was offered, but would be interested to learn if it was distributed on a more general basis.