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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 782429, member: 112&quot;]They were white. But that seller is pointing out the fact that those white envelopes age over time and show some discoloration.</p><p><br /></p><p>Haven&#039;t you ever seen a sheet of white paperthat yellowed with age ? That&#039;s what he is talking about. He is trying to say that his sets are original because they are in envelopes that show aging.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>The mint never sealed any envelopes.</p><p><br /></p><p>That said, it used to be common practice for those who ordered the annual Mint and Proof Sets direct from the mint, to just put the envelopes containg the coins away, stacked on top of one another, without ever looking at them. </p><p><br /></p><p>Over time, if the person who owned them lived in a particularly humid area or stored them in a humid area - the humidity in the air itself was sometimes enough to moisten the glue and cause the outer flap of the envelope to stick. Thus making it look like it had been sealed by the mint. But in reality it never was.</p><p><br /></p><p>Then, a few years ago, when ebay became popular, some sellers began printing new envelopes at home and sealing them. Because people who did not know any better would buy into the advertising hype about the envelopes still being sealed and pay more for them than they would a set in an open envelope. </p><p><br /></p><p>People like to gamble, and if they think there might be a chance, no matter how slim, that they could end up getting something really good (like a high grade Mint Set or a cameo Proof set) in a sealed envelope - then they will often pay more for that than it is really worth.</p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s like all of the &quot;unsearched&quot; coin lots sold on ebay. People figured those Mint &amp; Proof sets could never have been &quot;searched&quot; because the envelope was sealed. Little did they know that the envelopes were <b>never</b> sealed. At least not by the mint.</p><p><br /></p><p>The selling of so called &quot;sealed&quot; sets is a scam, plain and simple. It is buying a pig in a poke to use an old phrase. You don&#039;t know what you are getting because you can&#039;t see it.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now I don&#039;t know about you, but in my opinion it doesn&#039;t take a rocket scientist to know that doing that just isn&#039;t very smart.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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