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<p>[QUOTE="johnmilton, post: 26210186, member: 101855"]Sorry, but that is a matter of opinion. I wouldn't pay any more than a $1 for it. </p><p><br /></p><p>Some of these colorful Proofs from this era were caused by an error in mint packaging. Back in the 1970s I cut open a Proof set from the early 1960s that had "gone bad." When I cut into the pouch that had a coin toned like this in it, I got a wiff of chemicals that indicated that the glue or whatever than held the flat pack together had been trapped in the space and toned the coin. </p><p><br /></p><p>Silly me. I thought that the coin was "a bad penny Proof" and was therefore a cull.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="johnmilton, post: 26210186, member: 101855"]Sorry, but that is a matter of opinion. I wouldn't pay any more than a $1 for it. Some of these colorful Proofs from this era were caused by an error in mint packaging. Back in the 1970s I cut open a Proof set from the early 1960s that had "gone bad." When I cut into the pouch that had a coin toned like this in it, I got a wiff of chemicals that indicated that the glue or whatever than held the flat pack together had been trapped in the space and toned the coin. Silly me. I thought that the coin was "a bad penny Proof" and was therefore a cull.[/QUOTE]
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