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 Posted 01/02/2014  5:13 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Jerry_B to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Ended at $76 with five bids.
Wow.
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 Posted 01/05/2014  9:05 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Battersea Dogs Home to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
I'm not sure why this listing was such a heinous crime. Surely all that was needed was a quick note to the seller pointing out that the set wasn't a proof (if that is the case - I have no idea). The removal of a single word would have been sufficient.

The question of listing it as MS70 is patently nonsense as it is sealed. If a potential buyer doesn't have enough nouse to realise this, they probably aren't on the ball sufficiently to be safely let loose on ebay period. As this would be obvious to the majority of potential bidders, it becomes a 'so what'.

The question of ebay only allowing TPG graded MS numbers is a separate problem to do with the typically American obsession for absolutes rather than a divergence of opinions and IMO can't be sensibly or rationally applied to an impossible situation. It's a silly rule.
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 Posted 01/05/2014  9:25 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add bobby131313 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
I've heard plenty of old timers at shows say that those envelopes were NOT sealed when sold new. Said they had gum, but were not sealed from the mint. I wasn't born yet so I have no first hand knowledge though.
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 Posted 01/06/2014  09:54 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add stampvirgin to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Than you Dad, You confirmed what I had heard elsewhere.

The fact that this person called it a proof set and only listed 1950's era and MS70 is completely misleading.
As I have stated previously, proof sets did not come in flat packs until mid-1955.
Every set I have seen out there has a date on the envelope, others have posted images of envelopes without dates, I still haven't found out how they came.
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 Posted 01/06/2014  11:39 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add BStrauss3 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
I believe that if you ordered multiple sets they wrapped them in brown paper and sent them Parcel Post.
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 Posted 01/12/2014  10:22 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add westcoin to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
That sure looks like an old proof envelope as issued from the US government to me. I'd say any sealed ones today have been steamed open to check for frosted cameo haves by now, then resealed. I have also heard that most of the set issued were sent un sealed by the mint also.
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 Posted 01/22/2014  1:26 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add stampvirgin to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
I just looked up this sale.... looked at sellers feedback... apparently the person who bought this wasn't happy.


Negative feedback rating Do not buy from this guy he is a crook
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1950's mint set not opened (#291047548301) US $76.00

http://feedback.ebay.com/ws/eBayISA...backAsSeller
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 Posted 01/22/2014  10:33 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Henry M Smith to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
I assume he is implying all mint sets are MS70, which is not the case. Most people here know this, but would a 10 year old just getting into collecting? ebay does have a problem with grading coins that are not slabbed.

Did they take it down after it was reported?
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 Posted 01/23/2014  09:48 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add stampvirgin to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
no they did not take it down, hence the feedback. someone bought it and wasn't happy.
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