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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 164837, member: 66&quot;]Four types of holder.</p><p><br /></p><p>There were three types of hard pack holder and one type of soft pack. (I&#039;m not showing the reverses of the holders.)</p><p><br /></p><p><b>GSA 1 </b> officially used for circulated silver dollars both CC and non-CC.&nbsp; In actual practice you will find some Unc non-CC dollars in these holders and a good many of the unc 1878-CC dollars were released in this holder.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.applepics.com/100/userfiles/454a33c2850f0.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><b>GSA 2</b> This hardpack has United States Uncirculated Silver Dollar molded into the front of the holder.&nbsp; It was unsed for Non-CC Dollars that the GSA rated as Uncirculated.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.applepics.com/100/userfiles/454a33c2bac4e.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><b>GSA 3</b> This hardpack has Carson City Silver Dollar molded into the case.&nbsp; This was used for the CC dollars that had no wear but which for some reason, usually toning, the GSA would not rank as Uncirculated.&nbsp; While the coin shown here has heavy toning the GSA put many coins in these holders that were pretty much blast white but with just a small area of toning.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.applepics.com/100/userfiles/454a33c2f2ecb.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><b>GSA 4</b> This is the hardpack that most people are thinking of when they talk about GSA dollars.&nbsp; Now the molding on the front reads Carson City Uncirculated Silver Dollar.&nbsp; These are Mint State CC dollars which are untoned.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.applepics.com/100/userfiles/454a33c32d30f.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;These are the only holders that were used in the GSA sales.&nbsp; One other item from the GSA dollar sales that early articles reported were going to be sold were the thousands of mint bags that the coins had been stored in, many of them from the CC mint.&nbsp; Unfortunately after the coin sales actually started I never heard anything again about what finally happened to the mint bags.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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