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This coin actually come straight out of the San Francisco mint bag in 1967. All 50 coins look just like this, this is the one I put in my collection. I don't know why but the SF coins looked to have better strikes and better luster than the P and D mints, I don't know you tell me. All bag coins I purchased come from Federal Reserve Bank in Dallas TX.
This is a little surprising since it's such a hammered strike. It is very clean and a very desirable coin.
It was made by SMS dies as evidenced by the fact that the die was basined. Not all the dies had their fields flattened like this but only SMS dies did. These dies were generally used about 30,000 strikes and then removed and used to strike regular circulation coins in San Francisco. This die shows little wear but could have struck about this number of coins and survived it well.
I'm not familiar with any bags of "50". Were these some special mint product?
Time don't fly, it bounds and leaps.