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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;7Jags, post: 5394911, member: 78719&quot;]Franklin Mint, I mean....I stay on the lookout for these. Krause does some detail on these, but see previous posts of mine about the finishes on these. To review, there are the following types:</p><p><br /></p><p>Uncirculated, proof-like finish (U)</p><p>Uncirculated, matte (M). - this coin</p><p><br /></p><p>Proof strike (P). Of course these can be normal, cameo, or deep cameo term used by PCGS (or ultra cameo which is the NGC term).</p><p><br /></p><p>Another discussion about this is the following: since there are two basic types of uncirculated as stated, which were issued for circulation and which were put in sets, termed &quot;specimen&quot; sets by the Franklin Mint. Occasionally, in countries such as Guyana, the Central Bank then packaged up sets.</p><p><br /></p><p>These are a lot ruder than the Franklin Sets and come as five coin (1c through 50c), and six coin cardboard sets (1c through $1) and the $1 dollar by itself and all for the years 1976-1980. By that, I mean these are (U) types but the planchets had very little preparation and the fields have a bit of a pebbly or almost a cast appearance.</p><p><br /></p><p>The matte coins such as the OP coin were sent down to Guyana for the most apart and [potentially] and may or may not have been released to circulation.So all Guyana uncirculated coins are scarce, but in the case of this coin Krause has it as follows:</p><p><br /></p><p>1976 Guyana 25c (M) mintage 4,000</p><p>1976 Guyana 25c (U) mintage&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; 50</p><p><br /></p><p>The latter packaged into Central Bank of Guyana sets as best I can determine with the former release to the Central Bank and either released, or melted or held.</p><p>Interestingly, the former is near as scarce as the latter so many may have not been released and either held or melted or ??</p><p><br /></p><p>I have similar but don&#039;t have as much background in the Franklin Mint Philippines issues, but I believe similar holds true for them.</p><p><br /></p><p>Does anybody have other to contribute?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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