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Message:: [QUOTE="ericl, post: 807706, member: 2697"]That MS-67 coins with a special sheen dated 1964 exist was never an issue nor did I deny them. However, what I objected to is the contention that there were 1964 "Special Mint Sets." 1964 Unc and Proof sets were issued. This is a well known fact and thus there was no need to have any "special" sets issued. You have to remember that the SMS's were issued as kind of an apology to collectors for the government's having bashed the hobby over the previous year. Unc sets were never just ordinary business strikes anyway, and that goes back to when they first started making them in the 1950s. The fact is that 1965-67 coins in MS 65 and higher are very rare, as they didn't start making the '65s until the middle of the year and they kept making them until the middle of 1966. Same with 1966-dated coins. In fact they were probably making 1966 and '67 coins at the same time. 1965-67 nickels are in fact rather rare compared to 1964s and 1968->s. The fact that someone decided to put in an extra hole for the "sms" coins in some half dollar albums doesn't mean that the coins are any different from the coins in the Unc sets from other dates. It's a matter of grade not type. As someone said in another thread: That's what the SMS designation is all about.[/QUOTE]