Interesting Find - Crossed my desk

Hey everyone!

I wanted to share something that crossed my desk the other day. I am in the process of trying to figure out what it's value is, and when I do, we will be selling it. just thought I'd share as it is truly one of a kind.

A letter from Mint Director Eva Adams to a private citizen in 1964 who couldn't get a Mint Set. The letter is hand signed and has a hand written post-script: "Can't have your wife mad at you!"

Any comments are welcome

 

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Very cool, thanks for sharing Mike.

 

A mint set with provenance. I think it is definitely a unique numismatic item, particularly with the personal message. Very, very cool.

 

Ha! That is absolutely fantastic!

 

Looks like you are in the catbird's seat. This is real cool. Lucky you. Keep it.

 

A Mint set with a specific story and original hand signature. Very nice.

 

Not many, if any, like that. Neat.

 

Those of you who were not around durring this time peroid ,it may seem strange that the demand was so great for the New Halves.
My dad came home the day before the release with two rolls.
He had an inside track as he worked for the Federal Reserve bank.
I still have a few left from those orginial rolls.
Everyone wanted a Kenedy half dollar.....and a year later US coinage was changed forever.
I do believe that at this time America lost a president and the effects on the majority of the population wanted something to remember.
Thus the demand ,as the country was still healing from a shock that still to this day....unresolved by many.

 

Pretty cool to have the history with the set.

 

He lived catty corner to the Chrysler Bldg.

 

That is awesome!

 

It should be framed as a display piece. Great piece of history to preserve.

 

Very interesting. It would be fantastic to know the contents of Hal's original letter, perhaps to keep as a reference, because whatever it contained obviously worked for Hal.

 

well, it's not mine, I work for a coin dealer. It's my job to sell it for as much as I can.

 

Just out of curiosity, what does something like this go for?

 

Very cool. Can you also show the Obverse side of the set for us?


The Mint Director stated "From my personal supply".. I wonder how many Mint Errors she kept in her personal supply?!

 

Be willing to bet the Director was worth a bundle. I can't begin to imagine the trove of coins in her possession. Just think of what she was able to amass in 8 years.

 

My first thought was that the set enclosed could have been a 1964 Special Mint Set, but alas, it is half of an ordinary Mint Set (the Philly part), and I have no way of knowing if this set was all that was shipped, if there was a Denver set, or if this particular Philly set was even part of this correspondence.

 

I sold it for $200

 

This meets both criteria for my wife getting mad at me: receiving letters from other women and receiving new coins in the mail.