I purchased a big bag-o misc stuff the other day...(shhh..don't tell @TaborTot22 ) . It had tokens, wooden nickels, mint tokens, misc. gaming tokens, etc...I found these in the bag and cant seem to find what this packaging is. I prolly just haven't searched hard enough...but they are all 1963 D Lincoln Cents, but they are in "single serve" packets. It appears that these packets at one time were all together. Similar to a Mint set in the cello...but each packet has perforated edges. When I pulled them out of the bag, two of these "sets" were still stuck together by one perforation long ways...so a single row of 4 coins...but I pulled it apart. Can anyone tell me what this packaging is? I'm assuming its something from the Mint, but can't verify it. @TaborTot22 - do you by chance know?
I bought a near roll of silver quarters packaged like that from Silvertown, or (I forget their name) big operation in the NE US.
Complete shot in the dark, but maybe it was used for including in cereal boxes? Didn't Cheerios once include a penny in each cereal box for a special promotion? It would at least explain the individual packaging.... Again, I am probably wrong, but may give you something to search on... Good luck - very interesting mystery.
@LostDutchman - Do you think its secondary market, kinda like how Littleton packs the single coins...just has my curiosity piqued..
@Treashunt and @Hotpocket - Sorry didn't mean to ignore you posts...my screen hadn't refreshed. I was thinking the same things Some sort of secondary packaging, would just like to figure out where from.
No idea about the cents. I tried some research on my end as well but couldn't find anything. Glad you are enjoying the grab bag.
I have some of those cents packaged like that from a larger collection I bought...I would guess maybe Littleton Coin Co. or something like that? I need to dig those back up and check for tasty varieties.
I have a 1976 bicentennial silver quarter packaged like that. Always thought someone had cut it from a mint set or something.
@Bayern1900 I would have thought mint packaging too, but each set has left over perforation plastic bits on all 4 sides..so I knew it wasn't cut...at least with scissors. @Gnomey and @Treashunt, I thought Littleton too, but all Littleton packaging for single coins, at least that I've seen, was much larger...wonder if this is older Littleton packaging...
But the Cheerios giveaway was NOT they only time coins have been packaged in boxes of breakfast cereal (or other products). Promotions like that were not unusual back in the early 60's. I can't say that that is what these are, but I wouldn't rule it out. Back in the early 70's Littleton used paper envelopes. I don't know how far back they go.
Anybody who has the machinery can package coins like that. For that matter any small items can be packaged like that, and often are. But what you have to be careful of is that the same packaging equipment can also produce fake Mint Sets, and that has been done too. And about the only way to tell the read deal from a fake is to compare the two side by side. Mint sets were always packaged in pliofilm while the fakes were usually not, instead in cellophane or some other similar product. And the impression pattern in the material is usually different from that of genuine Mint Sets.
@Jess Sutton I got them in a bag-o-stuff I bought from a fellow coin talk member who live close to me
