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http://www.coinweek.com/featured-ne...e-mint-sets/I've been sitting on this article since March. I can't say for sure what I think they are, but one thing is for sure, they are coin orders from the mint containing two of every coin struck in a given year. So, did Leo Frese buy the first double mint sets at the Heritage auction at Central States? That's a complicated question. The thing I wonder about the most is- why didn't anyone know about them until now? Read the piece and let me know what you think. It's groundbreaking stuff... BTW- the sets will be on display at the ANA World's Fair of Money. I'll also be there at the CoinWeek booth, if you'd like to say "hi!" Edited by cc99999
08/04/2014 10:09 am
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Thank you for sharing this interesting article. It was a fun and educational read.
Paul Bulgerin
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Fascinating.
I know one thing, no one in my family ordered any of the sets or early mint sets--they didn't have the money to set aside for such luxuries.
It will be interesting to see what new information comes forth and if other sets surface in the future.
-MV
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I too am wondering why this is just now coming to light. I wish the article had more pictures, and that the ones that are there could be enlarged.
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Very cool! Very risky though, he went on to explain that majority of these sets arent original, people are just putting toned or old coins from that year into the original packaging. You know people will go to ANY means to make money off people, and they will do anything. Sad that such a solid piece of history gets crumpled by profit seekers. Pathetic actually.
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The formal, packaged double sets didn't start until 1947. Anything prior to that was informal. If you needed something before 1947 you wrote the Treasury, paid and got your coins. They were not in "modern" holders. If the Treasury couldn't help you, you wrote your Congressman and asked him to step in. This is "neat" but not earth shattering. Wonder how long it's gonna take for some enterprising individual to start selling 1942-1946 "mint sets" that were "just found in Grandpa's garage in old canvas bags" on ebay? |
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Really cool story. Makes you wonder how many more were sold.
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An interesting story. I wonder how we will look back on it in the next ten or twenty years.
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I agree with westernsky, these are most likely just coins sold by the Treasury to a collector based on a specific request. They treasury had been doing stuff like that for at least a couple of decades. Interesting but not anything like an official "set".
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By chance, I was VERY fortunate to be able to view and photograph coins from the sets that were opened.
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