Cameo Franklins

The 1950 sets all had cellophane sleeves for the coins. The sleeves in that pic are made of soft plastic, therefore it is not original. It is somewhat common for some to take the original cardboard box the sets came in after the original set has been broken up, put coins into those soft plastic sleeves and staple them together - and then sell the set as an original set.

And for what an original 1950 Proof set sells for, you get a higher price than what you get if you had sold the same coins individually.

 

Not any more Mike, gave up collecting US too long ago. But having searched through literally hundreds if not thousands of those early Proof sets I became quite familiar with them. The cellophane sleeves have an entirely different look even in a picture.

Here is another pic of a couple repackaged early Proof sets. That is one of the cellophane sleeves there on the far left, with no coin in it.



You can find similar discussions we have had over the years by doing an Advanced Search. Use the key word - cellophane - and use my user name to bring them up.

 

I mean I sold everything, did it twice even. I stopped collecting US coins some years ago and sold my entire US collection. I then concentrated on collecting world coinage for some years, specializing in gold. Then a few years ago I sold that entire collection and stopped collecting coins period.

I now just continue with my studies of the coins and to a degree collect books about coins. But it's not really a collection, more like an ongoing accumulation of a numismatic library.