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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;scottishmoney, post: 6315916, member: 12789&quot;]The 1960&#039;s sets were in an annoying plio-film holder that oft separated and cause the coins to tarnish-corrode.&nbsp; The later ie 1970s sets were in a hard plastic case but they were NOT sonically sealed and tarnish, corrosion were still factors with them.&nbsp; They were sold through Mezhnumizmatika which was a joint Bank of Foreign Trade of the USSR and West German venture.&nbsp; I will have to dig some sets out to look at them, but the later 1970s and early 1980s sets were distributed by a US coin dealer who sold them through mail order.</p><p><br /></p><p>A note on the hard plastic sets, during the 1970&#039;s most were in a red holder, but a few were made in black and or blue holders the latter of which are quite rare.&nbsp; The red holdered ones were for the common western peasants, but the black or blue were given as presentation pieces to the better than the average equal of equals in the apparatchiki.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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