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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 783334, member: 112&quot;]OK look, you can call them whatever you want to call them. But the point is this, when purchased from the mint the Mint Sets were sent to you in an outer envelope with your name &amp; address on the outside. That envelope is what I am caling the mailing envelope. It looked like this - </p><p><br /></p><p>(see attached pic at bottom)</p><p><br /></p><p>This envelope was of course sealed, by the mint - every single time.</p><p><br /></p><p>Inside that envelope was another envelope that actually contained the coins. And that is what I am calling the shipping evelope. It is the envelope that the mint packaged the coins in before they left the mint. Those envelopes looked like this - </p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i.ebayimg.com/05/!BjI5bfQBGk~$(KGrHqQOKj!EsnKty84zBLSU0pLPvw~~_12.JPG" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>This envelope was not sealed by the mint. The flap was merely folded over just like any unused envelope is and left that way. It was then placed,unsealed, inside the mailing envelope and sent to the person who purchased it.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Souveneir sets could only be purchased at the mint, or at a store operated by the mint, in person, face to face. They were never mailed out to anybody. And those envelopes, which looked like this, were never sealed either.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i.ebayimg.com/01/!Bi)oP!!BWk~$(KGrHqQH-E!Es9usjt3PBLQpiqkeSw~~_12.JPG" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Now, as to the question of the color of the envelope. And I am talking about the shipping (inner) envelope, not the mailing envelope - you can call them the inner and outer envelope if you wish for the name doesn&#039;t really matter - the color varied depending the year it was at the time. Some of the inner Mint Set envelopes were brown and some were white, some were even off-white. But they were never sealed <u>by the mint</u> - ever. That is the only point that I am making. </p><p><br /></p><p>The Souveneir Set envelopes were always blue or green.</p><p><br /></p><p>And yes, as I have acknowledged, it did happen from time to time that once purcahsed, during storage these envelopes did become sealed <u>by accident</u> due to environmental conditions. But these were few and far between.</p><p><br /></p><p>But during the advent of what I shall call the ebay age - people began sealing up these unsealed envelopes in an effort to scam people as I have explained. And I guess that the main point is, the myth of the sealed envelope is nothing but a scam.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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