1967 SMS Question About Packaging

Great Topic, Hope You Picked Some Beauties Too.....


I Too collected ALL these sets I could Cherry Pick.....@ $3.25 a Set.....


What did You pay for The Sets ?

The Original Packaging, BOTH, are Still Available. Years Ago I was Asked to Leave a B&M, Cherry Picking Their, Every Single Set.....( that's what We Do ).

Same Boxes, Same " Special " Sets Inside...

These coins were a Fill In for The Not Minted in1965, 66, 67 Regular Uncirculated Coins. The Special Mint Sets are Full of Very Varying Degrees of Struck, Proof-Like Coins.

There are Some Very Awesome, Well Struck Exquisite Examples Out There....

The Original Packaging comes in the Two differing Blue Sleeves, Either way, You've Winners.........
]Not To mention The 1964 " Special Strikes " Coins, Which were minted Just Before The SMS's......Very Rare indeed...

I am a business strike collector and I have holes all over my sets for these years because I have a hard time distinguishing from photos between SMS and business strikes. Slabbed business strikes are getting pricy too.

And I would add...as far as Lincolns. The only remarkable SMS cents I've found where in the 1967 sets. As I recall collectors complained about the quality of the 65/66 sets so the mint tried to up their game with the 1967 sets. You can find near proof coins in those. I think I paid like $5 for this set - only for the Lincoln. Don't even remember what I did with the other coins.

That is a very nice cent Thad

Here is another article with further info on and about collecting the 65-67 SMS sets which are both inexpensive and obtainable while of course the more expensive highest graded versions are snatched up by the registry set collectors. https://www.pcgs.com/news/collectin...of-1965-1967



Heres an article I have mentioned before on the 1964 sms. https://www.pcgs.com/news/1964-spec...nt-set-coins As mentioned several times elsewhere where people take the 1966 or 1967 SMS hard case and replace the coins in them with 1964 mint or proof set coins and try to sell them as 1964 SMS sets.

In 1965, the U.S. Mint discontinued issuing both Proof and Mint sets. However, as an alternative, the Mint began offering what are known as Special Mint Sets. The coins in these sets had a special finish that was most akin to the Satin Proofs of 1936- far better than the finish on a regular Mint State coin, but not nearly as brilliant and reflective as the finish on the Proof coins of 1937 to 1964. Collectors purchased over 2.6 million 1965 sets, but only because they had no alternative. This amount was far below the number of 1964 Proof Sets sold (3.95 million) and the total of all 1964 Proof and Mint Sets sold (4.96 million), thus the Mint took a serious hit to its revenue stream. The Mint issued Special Mint Sets in 1965, 1966, and 1967, and each year saw a declining mintage. In 1968, the Mint began offering regular Proof and Mint Sets. Collector enthusiasm returned and the mintages returned to their pre-Special Mint Set levels.



Well, If everything in your house is now being sold as a vintage collectible on ebay... you might be getting old

Five or fewer and they're probably all the same and all shiny.