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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Collecting Nut, post: 25498666, member: 74863&quot;]Please note that no proof or mint sets were issued in 1965, 1966 or 1967. Only Special Mint Sets were issued by the mint. Due to clad coinage starting in 1965 and in 1964 silver coins were last struck is what brought about the change in SMS. </p><p>That created a nationwide coin shortage. Coin collectors were blamed for the shortage but that never happened. Every family in the US was saving silver coins. </p><p>The San Francisco mint started to produce coins for the SMS in 1965. The quality was better than a mint set but not as good as a proof set. They are very distinctive and almost satin looking or semi brilliant. The coins were packaged in a sealed plastic holder similar to the packaging on proof sets. </p><p>All 3 years of the SMS the coins were only struck once and on unpolished planchets were proof coins are struck twice on polished planchets. Proof coins are not allowed to make contact with other coins but the SMS coins were allowed to make contact.</p><p>The dies were over polished which resulted in a proof like appearance. That have the dies a brilliant finish. This resulted in a very minor mint errors as over polishing occurred and design details were lost. </p><p>Almost all 1967 SMS coins have a brilliant and a proof like finish. The mintages are as follows:</p><p>1965-2,360,000</p><p>1966-2,261,583</p><p>1967-1,863,344</p><p>All were issued at a mint price of $4.00 and contained a face value of $.91. Today, almost 60 years later they trade in the are of $10-$15 each. The 1967 SMS may bring a couple of dollars more in different market areas.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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