Posted 12/04/2011 08:58 am
ha! I knew you'd answer this thread Eaglefoot! After I bought it, realized that I paid eighty dollars for a box, two commemorative coins, and a clad proof set... I did some digging into old CCF threads and read about your exchanges with that other member who told you to buy rare old coins and stop wasting your money, as well as some other threads about people saying they loved the packaging. It only makes sense now, that you'd way in first! :)
That being said, yes, I do believe the packaging (at least in photos) looks lovely. I'm trying to put together a nice set of African American themed coins (I don't know why I'm so into doing that, I'm not an African American person)- so when I saw this had the Desegregation proof I jumped at it. Of course, I thought that since it had two silver proofs that it would obviously be a silver proof set (and if it was a silver proof set I think it would have been very valuable- since then it would have been the premium mint product of that year).
Mostly, though, I bought it because I got beat out in the last ten seconds of an auction for a beautiful toned 1955 Quarter at MS-66. :(
That being said, yes, I do believe the packaging (at least in photos) looks lovely. I'm trying to put together a nice set of African American themed coins (I don't know why I'm so into doing that, I'm not an African American person)- so when I saw this had the Desegregation proof I jumped at it. Of course, I thought that since it had two silver proofs that it would obviously be a silver proof set (and if it was a silver proof set I think it would have been very valuable- since then it would have been the premium mint product of that year).
Mostly, though, I bought it because I got beat out in the last ten seconds of an auction for a beautiful toned 1955 Quarter at MS-66. :(
