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In cello from the Denver Mint, but the dime and cent are 1973-D and the rest are 1974-D. Anyone seen these. I don't collect Mint Sets or Proof Sets but bought this for a buck fifty.  swcoin.ecrater.com
Edited by vermontensium
03/24/2012 7:35 pm
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 Well, now that's a puzzler....must have been a bad day at the mint. No, I've never seen anything like that. I wouldn't have thought it possible. Did you really pay just $1.50 or is 'a buck fifty' slang for $150.00? 'Cuz I'm thinking it's worth more than $1.50 for sure. It is a curiosity. |
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82+83 souvenir sets are fairly expensive, since they didn't make mint sets those years.
It's prolly a legit packaging error, but wouldn't be that difficult to fake.
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Bedrock of the Community
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$1.50 for the souvenir set would definitely be low. As for why the two different dates, the first thing I would want to know is when were the different denominations struck at Denver in 74? If the cent and dime were not struck early in the year the first souvenir sets may have used the previous years coins since the 74's were not available yet. That is just a guess.
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All right -- the hunt is on -- we must find more!
Or maybe this is the only one....in which case $1.50 was a really good price.
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I want to throw on ebay but start off at what? swcoin.ecrater.com
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how about a 1.51 haha  I do wonder if they made other sets like that that is an interesting puzzle indeed |
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'74-D sets aren't tough. '73-D are much tougher. I've not seen a mixed '73/'74.
I have, however seen a mixed '74/ '75. This set has a '75 penny, nickel, and dime.
It seems quite odd these would exist. Sets were made in batches but it's surprising they wouldn't wait until all coins of a single date were available and avoid mixed sets. I wonder how many combinations exist.
Time don't fly, it bounds and leaps.
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Are these sets machine assembled or are they made by hand? I searched around for awhile -- couldn't find many sets at all and none from that/those year(s). Get it slabbed!  |
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The mixed 74/75 set makes sense since they made the 1974 dated quarters, halves, and dollars for the first half of 1975. Any Souvenir 1975 sets made during the first half of the year would be mixed 74/75. Those made late in the year would probably be mixed 75/76. The Bicentennial half was not released until July and the quarter a couple months later. The mint probably would not have wanted to release them in the Souvenir sets before they were issued and they wouldn't want to go most of the year with no sets to sell. I agree you would think they would want to wait on making the 74 sets until all the coins were available, but if for some reason the cent and dime were delayed that year they may have reasch ed a point where they didn't want to wait any longer. (Although the cent being delayed would seem odd. those usually strat right off at the beginning of the year. Of course there was a cent shortage in 1974.)
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Are these sets machine assembled or are they made by hand?
I searched around for awhile -- couldn't find many sets at all and none from that/those year(s).
Get it slabbed!
I don't believe the mint had any automated mint set packing equipment until 1980. The few mintages that are known from that era are all very very low. But I've seen some surprisingly high figures for later dates and they can be even tougher to find! I'd guess that most of the early dates were made in very small batches as the mintage for the '72 is only "400". I've found the '73 to be only slightly easier than the '72 but '74 is much more easily found. Time don't fly, it bounds and leaps.
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The mixed 74/75 set makes sense since they made the 1974 dated quarters, halves, and dollars for the first half of 1975. Any Souvenir 1975 sets made during the first half of the year would be mixed 74/75. Those made late in the year would probably be mixed 75/76. The Bicentennial half was not released until July and the quarter a couple months later. The mint probably would not have wanted to release them in the Souvenir sets before they were issued and they wouldn't want to go most of the year with no sets to sell. I agree you would think they would want to wait on making the 74 sets until all the coins were available, but if for some reason the cent and dime were delayed that year they may have reasch ed a point where they didn't want to wait any longer. (Although the cent being delayed would seem odd. those usually strat right off at the beginning of the year. Of course there was a cent shortage in 1974.)
Good points. I should have thought of this. I really should have checked the '74 cents for small dates. I'll try to get back if I find any. Time don't fly, it bounds and leaps.
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