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1966 SMS or ??
erwindoc
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Is this how the SMS sets were packaged or is this an "after market" set with business strike coins? The finish is a bit flatter than the other SMS coins I have seen, but I struggle telling the difference between the high grade MS and SMS.
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1966 and 1967 sets were in a hard plastic holder similiar to a Capital holder and were housed in a blue cardboard sleeve. The 1965 sets were in an white envelope.
This appears to be an 'after market' heat sealed sleeve, much like the way the Mint packaged the 1965 SMS sets. The coins contained maybe just ordinary business struck coins or could very well be coins removed from a SMS set, to hard to really tell.
Note: The empty space would have contained a plastic 'Mint Token' had this come from the Mint
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Difficult to say with authority, but they look like aftermarket coins sealed to sell.... Cheers, RickO
The mint was not the only source for coins that were placed in cellopacks. Private companies did it too for years sets they sold in the 1960s.
I've never seen this specific set but in almost all cases they did not use mint set coins. A few of these appear to have been assembled in later years and these sometimes use SMS coins.
Generally it doesn't matter much because quality of the coins used is terrible. I suppose these coins must be superb?
The quality of these is very nice! That is what led me to think that it was a SMS in disguise, but what do I know.
Don' t worry too much the graders will go for what ever is worth less.
I sold a couple consecutive sms sets in mint holders, I heard there were some that were worth a lot more.