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carabonnair
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Picked these up yesterday - from the dates circa 1962
I imagine the advertising refund mailers are scarcer than any of the coins involved.
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I'm sure people got them pulled the coins and chucked the mailer
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Love that stuff!
Looks like someone got a little coin collection in the mail.
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i dont see that none to often. nice and thanks for sharing
I haven't seen those since - well - the early 60's!
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Very cool... and are they the original coins in the mailer?? Wow.. Cheers, RickO
That stuff would work for me.. I like it!
Wonder if there's a story to go with the '43 steel cents?? Would seem odd that they just randomly ended up together in this batch of coins, along side cents from the 60's. (Or, maybe I just don't realize how common they once were in circulation?)
The unc. cents might be original coins, they do show some strap toning to match the holders - they are at least contemporary with them. I assume the larger denominations were removed and spent. They seem to be used as holders for a few older coins pulled from circulation with (Red Book ?) prices penciled on the flap.
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neat item, I like it
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I remember these. The coins in these mailer are likely not original to the mailer.
The combination of slots allowed the manufacturer to refund the amount due in almost any amount from $0.01 (one coin in a cent size hole) to about $1.70 (largest value coin in the hole that fits). The largest will accommodate a $0.50 cent coin.
My mother once bought six cans of chicken noodle soup. The first can she opened was bad. She wrote to Campbell's and received one of these mailers in response with a Walking Liberty Half Dollar in the largest hole. As I recall, the soup was $0.09 or $0.10 per can at the time.
The most common approach was: Buy the product, often some special packaging; send in the labels and grocery receipt; receive a cash refund of purchase price. Campbell's soup was around 12-cents per can. Most things were still under "fair trade" laws so there was a fixed retail price.
Cool stuff.
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Sweet !!!
...I have a feeling that ole' Handy Andy wouldn't make it in today's world of the METOO movement
That archival storage is superb for the coins.
Those are pretty dated and unusual. Neat to see such things. I have 2 from 1976 in which bicentennial quarters were the only coin put into the slots.
Thanks for sharing.
Later, Paul.