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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cladking, post: 837235, member: 68&quot;]They made two different of these.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>The first were struck to mint set standards and sold in plastic sleeves with a white stripe.&nbsp; There were a few types of packaging used.&nbsp; The second type were run off on high speed presses when the mint came to believe they were required to mint some 14,000,000 coins by the authorizing legislation in June/ July 1976.&nbsp; These &quot;high speed&quot; versions were unceremoniously dumped into 55 gallon drums for storage.&nbsp; They were sold right up through 1982 in pale red light weight envelopes in sleeves with no white stripe.&nbsp; It was actually possible briefly in 1979 to buy these at or below melt before the mint hurriedly raised prices.&nbsp; Many of these sold in &#039;79/ &#039;80 went into the melting furnaces.&nbsp; Sales however were very poor because the quality of these later sets was terrible.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Is it possible your AU&#039;s are just these much scarcer high speed versions?&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Large numbers were melted in &#039;82 but they were all the ones stored in drums.&nbsp; Probably more than 3,000,000 of the better sets were produced but these were melted to some extent by the market.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>There is something of a premium for intact sets&nbsp; here but only the Ike has a small premium to melt individually.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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