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<p>[QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 110577, member: 112"]The problem I have with the set isn't the mint medal or the date on it - it's the package. Take a close look at the way the edge of the cellophane is sealed. Now compare it to this - </p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://imagehost.vendio.com/bin/viewimage.x/00000000/manitowoccoins/1001.jpg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://imagehost.vendio.com/bin/viewimage.x/00000000/manitowoccoins/1001.jpg" rel="nofollow">'79 Souvenir Dollar set</a></p><p><br /></p><p>See the difference ? It's the pattern in the cellophane, the machine used to seal these sets creates a distinctive pattern. </p><p><br /></p><p>The set I pictured was just for the dollar sets, couldn't find one readily available for the whole set. But even the regular mint sets had the same design in the cellophane. And neither of them had any imprinting. They used colors to identify which mint it came from - red & blue. With the souvenir sets they used the envelopes.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 110577, member: 112"]The problem I have with the set isn't the mint medal or the date on it - it's the package. Take a close look at the way the edge of the cellophane is sealed. Now compare it to this - [URL="http://imagehost.vendio.com/bin/viewimage.x/00000000/manitowoccoins/1001.jpg"]'79 Souvenir Dollar set[/URL] See the difference ? It's the pattern in the cellophane, the machine used to seal these sets creates a distinctive pattern. The set I pictured was just for the dollar sets, couldn't find one readily available for the whole set. But even the regular mint sets had the same design in the cellophane. And neither of them had any imprinting. They used colors to identify which mint it came from - red & blue. With the souvenir sets they used the envelopes.[/QUOTE]
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