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<p>[QUOTE="John Burgess, post: 3654616, member: 105098"]It's not a mint issued set in that manner. The mint sets of 1958 would of come in a manilla envelope and packaged in that in sealed cellophane plastic.</p><p><br /></p><p>Many people at that time would have removed them from the cellophane and put them into something like this rigid plastic screwdown holder... not sure but maybe it's a capital holder?</p><p>Anyways the rigid holders keep them from getting banged or moving and offer more protection to hits than the cellophane. It's relatively common to find sets in these types of holders, but it's not mint issued originally like that.</p><p><br /></p><p>Few years earlier and they would have been shipped from the mint in a small cardboard box with the coins wrapped in tissue paper only. I think that where putting them into these rigid plastic screw down cases became popular and likely someone that was doing it in earlier years would have stuck with it so their collection would be uniform.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="John Burgess, post: 3654616, member: 105098"]It's not a mint issued set in that manner. The mint sets of 1958 would of come in a manilla envelope and packaged in that in sealed cellophane plastic. Many people at that time would have removed them from the cellophane and put them into something like this rigid plastic screwdown holder... not sure but maybe it's a capital holder? Anyways the rigid holders keep them from getting banged or moving and offer more protection to hits than the cellophane. It's relatively common to find sets in these types of holders, but it's not mint issued originally like that. Few years earlier and they would have been shipped from the mint in a small cardboard box with the coins wrapped in tissue paper only. I think that where putting them into these rigid plastic screw down cases became popular and likely someone that was doing it in earlier years would have stuck with it so their collection would be uniform.[/QUOTE]
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