Two 1965 UNOPENED SMS sets

Bochiman · August 5, 2007 10:05AM

I am so tempted to open them but haven't.......

Russ · August 5, 2007 10:07AM

Opening them to check the coins would be redundant.

Russ, NCNE

jmski52 · August 5, 2007 10:16AM

Opening them to check the coins would be redundant.

Now, I feel really dense. Why would it be redundant?

Russ · August 5, 2007 10:18AM

<< Opening them to check the coins would be redundant.

Now, I feel really dense. Why would it be redundant? >>

The 1965 SMS sets were not sealed by the mint. Somebody has already checked the coins.

Russ, NCNE

jmski52 · August 5, 2007 10:21AM

Now it's all coming back to me.

MadMarty · August 5, 2007 10:22AM

<< 

<< Opening them to check the coins would be redundant.

Now, I feel really dense. Why would it be redundant? >>

The 1965 SMS sets were not sealed by the mint. Somebody has already checked the coins.

Russ, NCNE >>

Russ is correct!

jmski52 · August 5, 2007 10:23AM

Maybe the original owner found some 1964 SMS coins, got disgusted with the Mint, sealed them up, and decided just to forget the whole thing?

(I am teasing Bochiman, trying to see how long he can hold out now.)

Bochiman · August 5, 2007 10:28AM

<< 

<< Opening them to check the coins would be redundant.

Now, I feel really dense. Why would it be redundant? >>

The 1965 SMS sets were not sealed by the mint. Somebody has already checked the coins.

Russ, NCNE >>

Not this time, Russ....they are in the original mailing envelope (both sets in 1 envelope and marked and stamped).
Sets have NOT been opened and are only "sealed" by the mailing envelope.....

(It was a trick post

)

I got these from my uncle last month.....I want to pass them on to my son unopened just because it is cool since they were sent opened but the original mailer hasn't been opened so no one has seen them

Bochiman · August 5, 2007 10:29AM

btw....Russ....I thought you, of almost all people on the board, would have figured there to be an angle behind my OP.....I am not dumb enough to have been on the boards this long without realizing that the sets, themselves, were sealed by the mint

GFourDriver · August 5, 2007 11:09AM

Like this B-man?

Bochiman · August 5, 2007 12:20PM

You got it, G4driver

Except the name and address are different

Also, yours appears to be a box....these sets are in an envelope.
What's cool is that, while the front looks like yours to a large degree, the back has a piece of white tape sealing the flap on the back and is stamped twice from the post offices....once with July 28, 1966 and once with Aug 5, 1966. Easy to see the set has been molested yet (no tears or partially opened flap....no issues with break of the stamp or tape)

Russ · August 5, 2007 12:31PM

<< Also, yours appears to be a box....these sets are in an envelope. >>

His also has 10 sets in it.

Russ, NCNE

Bochiman · August 5, 2007 12:35PM

Yeah, I see that now....I was just looking at the "2" in the bottom right part of the shaded area and not the "10" in the left side.
Mine has a "2" in each place.

G4driver....you show off

tightbudget · August 5, 2007 12:35PM

Flip a coin...

GFourDriver · August 5, 2007 12:42PM

<<<G4driver....you show off >>>>

I try...lol

cullenbryant · August 5, 2007 12:51PM

what's the date on the envelope, before aug i believe you can still get first strike

Cladiator · August 5, 2007 1:05PM

<< what's the date on the envelope, before aug i believe you can still get first strike >>

GFourDriver · August 5, 2007 1:05PM

<<<what's the date on the envelope, before aug i believe you can still get first strike >>>>

I've been trying to find out what constitutes "First Strike" for a long time on these. I've even called PCGS and the customer rep couldnt help me. It is San Fran postmarked Aug 4 1966.

Bochiman · August 5, 2007 1:36PM

Wouldn't THAT be a hoot?!?!

A first strike '65 SMS set

GFourDriver · August 5, 2007 1:44PM

<<<Wouldn't THAT be a hoot?!?!

A first strike '65 SMS set >>>

Totally! I'd like to see it happen though.

Two 1965 UNOPENED SMS sets

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