Is this mint packaging? 1959 Cent

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• jmski52 Posts: 23,477 ✭✭✭✭✭

  February 8, 2020 2:56PM

  Not Mint packaging.

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• mark_dak Posts: 1,148 ✭✭✭✭✭

  February 8, 2020 2:59PM

  No don't believe they ever deviated from set packaging after starting it.

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• Cameonut Posts: 7,397 ✭✭✭✭✭

  February 8, 2020 3:48PM

  No. 1959 proofs were sold in cello flat packs.

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• davewesen Posts: 6,759 ✭✭✭✭✭

  February 8, 2020 3:53PM

  I am not even sure that is what they had in 50-54 sets (although with all the staple holes, it looks recycled). Meghrig used to sell little bags similar to that.

  

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• ChrisH821 Posts: 6,859 ✭✭✭✭✭

  February 8, 2020 4:16PM

  @davewesen said:
  I am not even sure that is what they had in 50-54 sets (although with all the staple holes, it looks recycled). Meghrig used to sell little bags similar to that.

  @Cameonut said:
  No. 1959 proofs were sold in cello flat packs.

  The multiple holes are from the 2x2 it used to be stapled into. The material is definitely cellophane like the early 50's proofs were shipped in. This is an MS coin but I don't know why a collector of times past would bother to put it in something like this. I guess someone was just very thorough or particular.

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• jmlanzaf Posts: 37,640 ✭✭✭✭✭

  February 8, 2020 5:34PM

  @davewesen said:
  I am not even sure that is what they had in 50-54 sets (although with all the staple holes, it looks recycled). Meghrig used to sell little bags similar to that.

  

  The polyethylene is softer than the polymer in the photo, but it is the same basic idea.

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• jmlanzaf Posts: 37,640 ✭✭✭✭✭

  February 8, 2020 5:35PM

  @ChrisH821 said:

  @davewesen said:
  I am not even sure that is what they had in 50-54 sets (although with all the staple holes, it looks recycled). Meghrig used to sell little bags similar to that.

  @Cameonut said:
  No. 1959 proofs were sold in cello flat packs.

  The multiple holes are from the 2x2 it used to be stapled into. The material is definitely cellophane like the early 50's proofs were shipped in. This is an MS coin but I don't know why a collector of times past would bother to put it in something like this. I guess someone was just very thorough or particular.

  I once bought an entire coin collection that was stored that way.

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• BillDugan1959 Posts: 3,821 ✭✭✭✭✭

  February 8, 2020 5:41PM edited February 8, 2020 5:43PM

  Cellophane packed pennies were often slipped into plastic wrapped packs of cigarettes that were going to be sold from vending machines. Put in a quarter, get back a pack of cigarette and two cents. Your cost, 23 cents.

  I have heard/read that many of the 1955 double dies found in Pennsylvania got distributed this way, in cigarette machines (probably QDB's speculation).

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• ricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

  February 10, 2020 7:25AM

  That is not mint packaging as already stated...Just to join the chorus...and yes, some of the '55 DDo's were found in cigarette packs - My Dad did... said to me...save these, they will be worth something someday. Yep...they are...but the coins did not survive the years in my top dresser drawer... all went after I left home for the Navy. Cheers, RickO

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• topstuf Posts: 14,803 ✭✭✭✭✭

  February 10, 2020 7:30AM

  Poly bags are popular in coin shops.
  The people who buy most of them are not popular.

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