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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;JBK, post: 26107408, member: 1101&quot;]You undoubtedly know more about the FM issues than I do, but I&#039;m not sure it&#039;s entirely accurate to say that &quot;no collector versions of any sort were made&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p>The Franklin Mint struck the proof sets for Malta in those years, as they did for many small countries.&nbsp; The FM marketed the sets to collectors in the US and beyond.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>As was common (universal?) the FM used the dies uses from proof or uncirculated set production to strike a couple or few hundred coins for circulation in the respective countries.&nbsp; This was done to add legitimacy to the idea that they were striking legal tender coins for those countries.</p><p><br /></p><p>In the modern era countries and mints think nothing of creating non-circulating legal tender (NCLT) coins but the FM wanted to avoid that scenario.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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