Dont open the box!!!!

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• SpaceMonkey Posts: 3,311 ✭

  March 29, 2007 10:58AM

  
  
  << <i>The new craze in numismatics,
  
  Dont open the mint sealed box, never get to look at the beautiful coins you bought....cuz.....
  
  you will LOSE out on bigger BUCKS when you sell...
  
  Lets see,,,,,10 -20th Anniv Silver Sets Sealed box wholesales 4100-4200 (out of FS date)
  
  Just CRAZY >>
  
  
  
  Is it really a NEW craze? How bout all of them 1964 Proof Sets still unopen (i know i know... a lot probably were open and closed again... but you get the idea)
  
  I has gotten a bit outta hand though i think.
  
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• 7over8 Posts: 4,733 ✭✭✭

  March 29, 2007 10:59AM

  the 55-64 sets are funny
  
  they never came sealed directly from the mint.
  
  

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• SpaceMonkey Posts: 3,311 ✭

  March 29, 2007 11:01AM

  
  
  << <i>the 55-64 sets are funny
  
  they never came sealed directly from the mint. >>
  
  
  
  Gotcha... just thinking about the envelope really.

  
  
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• Mark Posts: 3,635 ✭✭✭✭✭

  March 29, 2007 11:02AM

  Not opening the box is perhaps a craze that has returned. Apparently in the 50s or 60s (I forget which) there was a big craze for proof sets in mint sealed boxes. Evidentally some scammers could manage to open the box, substitute washers for the coins, and then reseal the box so that it was not easily detected. As I recall reading, the fad quickly stopped when some of the buyers X-rayed the boxes. I have no idea if this story is 100% true, because I do not recall if from my collecting days in the early/mid 60s, but I've always thought there was a chance it was true. And now that I see people salivating over sealed boxes, the chance the story is true seems to increase...

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• GoldenEyeNumismatics Posts: 13,187 ✭✭✭

  March 29, 2007 11:12AM

  $$$!
  
  Moon money!

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• JRocco Posts: 14,277 ✭✭✭✭✭

  March 29, 2007 11:12AM

  Makes you laugh.
  Kinda like when you see the occasional post here...
  "I just got a OB roll of XYZ cents, should I open it????
  Well what the heck did you buy it for ????
  If you are a collector....SEE ABOVE ""COLLECTORS UNIVERSE "", of course you should open it.....

  Some coins are just plain "Interesting"

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• Kip Posts: 852

  March 29, 2007 11:14AM

  I would think anyone could reseal the box

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• Writersblock Posts: 1,196 ✭

  March 30, 2007 1:03AM

  Mark, I don't know about the 50's and 60's but the sealed proof/mint sets with the coins replaced by washers was alive and well in the 70's. I knew some folks who got burned buying the unopened setsand then finding washers in them.

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• CoinHusker Posts: 5,034 ✭✭✭

  March 30, 2007 2:11AM

  This might be new in numismatics, but it's been around in other collectibles for a long time. I wish I had never opened the box on a lot of my toys from the '60's.

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