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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Blissskr, post: 2719773, member: 34882&quot;]This is my thoughts on it that they were test strikes for when the mint was working out the SMS details. As San Francisco hadn&#039;t minted any coins since 1955 until being refitted in 1964 in order to help with coinage production. Being closed for almost a decade they probably had to obtain and train new employees on coinage production methods. And since we know for a fact all 65-67 SMS coins were minted in San Francisco despite the lack of mintmark. I think it would make sense that sometime before that if they had struck test pieces to practice or determine feasibility of producing the SMS coins and those pieces were sent to mint director for review.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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