1964 *SEALED* Proof sets

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• relayer Posts: 10,570 ✭

  April 22, 2005 5:41PM

  
  It just means that they are currently sealed

  
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• markglicker Posts: 1,486 ✭

  April 22, 2005 5:46PM

  I was buying those at about $11, unopened a few years ago. What are they at now?

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• Trinketts Posts: 1,699 ✭

  April 22, 2005 6:02PM

  But I also see alot of empty new looking envelopes floating around on ebay. Not too hard to buy those then throw your searched proof set in there, seal it up and wala.
  
  And going for about $14-16 now

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• markglicker Posts: 1,486 ✭

  April 22, 2005 6:04PM

  Never thought of that, Trinketts. I always wondered about the unopened GSA Morgans which occasionally pop up. They bring about $600, and most likely contain a $200 coin. Wonder if those guys have a way to xray the coin for a date?

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• Shamika Posts: 18,785 ✭✭✭✭

  April 23, 2005 2:48AM

  A lot of them are crap (spots, streaks, haze, ugly toning, etc).
  

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• Russ Posts: 48,514 ✭✭✭

  April 23, 2005 3:51AM

  The vast majority listed on eBay are picked over and repacked, and the suckers are lining up at 50% over Ask.
  
  I actually saw a listing the other day with a title that read RARE OPENED 1964 proof set.
  
  Russ, NCNE

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• 19Lyds Posts: 26,492 ✭✭✭✭

  April 23, 2005 5:36AM

  

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• ddink Posts: 2,748

  April 23, 2005 6:21AM

  Back "in the day" the Millennium Coinage and Currency sets were selling for like $100 if they'd been opened, $125 if still in their shrinkwrap. As if you can't go down to the local office supply store and shrinkwrap a set.

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• Myqqy Posts: 9,777 ✭

  April 23, 2005 7:16AM

  Actually, nobody started opening proof sets until about 3-4 years ago- that's why there are still millions of unopened sets still floating around at reasonable prices.....

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• Bochiman Posts: 25,556 ✭✭✭✭✭

  April 23, 2005 1:33PM

  
  
  << <i>Never thought of that, Trinketts. I always wondered about the unopened GSA Morgans which occasionally pop up. They bring about $600, and most likely contain a $200 coin. Wonder if those guys have a way to xray the coin for a date? >>
  
  
  
  Mark, we had this discussion a year or so ago.....at that time, I asked the same question you did... Mark (Mgoodm3...a different "Mark" than you obviously) has access to an xray machine through his work. He mentioned the answer was "no".
  
  His icon coin is actually an xray pic of a coin he did in the course of answering that question
  
  Ron

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