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<p>[QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 3021694, member: 112"]You've got it backwards - as a general rule, the larger the denomination the less likely it will be cameo.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>You were just very lucky to meet and or know that person. If you searched for 20-30 years I doubt you could find another like him. Were there people like that back then ? Yes, of course, but they were very few and far between. And even fewer, or their families, still have the coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>But I must ask you to confirm something, these sets your friend has, are they all in those small cardboard boxes like the one I pictured ?</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>After '42 Proof sets were discontinued until 1950. And by then things had changed in regard to the number of collectors of who sought out and bought full Proof sets - they had increased greatly ! Proof sets were still issued in the cardboard boxes I pictured above until 1955, but in '55 only a few of them in boxes, the rest were in pliofilm flatpacks. Bottom line, the sets from '50 on in the original boxes are much more common than those from '36-'42 period, but even they are hard to find. And expensive when you do find them. As I said, I had all of '50 and later sets. But the cameo examples of Proofs continued to be scarce, very few in number, until 1973.</p><p><br /></p><p>In '73 the mint made a point of only issuing Proofs that were cameo. So the tables did a complete flip - Proofs dated '73 and newer that were not cameo became downright rare. And in just a few years unheard of.</p><p><br /></p><p>Examples of the original Proof sets, dated '50 to '55, in the cardboard boxes have been very hard to find for 20-30 years now. You can still find some, but rarely. And many of those you do find today are fakes. The coins are real, but the packaging is fake. That has also been true for 20-30 years. There are no large numbers of original Proof sets, dated '55 and earlier out there. They simply do not exist.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 3021694, member: 112"]You've got it backwards - as a general rule, the larger the denomination the less likely it will be cameo. You were just very lucky to meet and or know that person. If you searched for 20-30 years I doubt you could find another like him. Were there people like that back then ? Yes, of course, but they were very few and far between. And even fewer, or their families, still have the coins. But I must ask you to confirm something, these sets your friend has, are they all in those small cardboard boxes like the one I pictured ? After '42 Proof sets were discontinued until 1950. And by then things had changed in regard to the number of collectors of who sought out and bought full Proof sets - they had increased greatly ! Proof sets were still issued in the cardboard boxes I pictured above until 1955, but in '55 only a few of them in boxes, the rest were in pliofilm flatpacks. Bottom line, the sets from '50 on in the original boxes are much more common than those from '36-'42 period, but even they are hard to find. And expensive when you do find them. As I said, I had all of '50 and later sets. But the cameo examples of Proofs continued to be scarce, very few in number, until 1973. In '73 the mint made a point of only issuing Proofs that were cameo. So the tables did a complete flip - Proofs dated '73 and newer that were not cameo became downright rare. And in just a few years unheard of. Examples of the original Proof sets, dated '50 to '55, in the cardboard boxes have been very hard to find for 20-30 years now. You can still find some, but rarely. And many of those you do find today are fakes. The coins are real, but the packaging is fake. That has also been true for 20-30 years. There are no large numbers of original Proof sets, dated '55 and earlier out there. They simply do not exist.[/QUOTE]
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