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<p>[QUOTE="SRSNUM, post: 7530952, member: 102988"]I should have shown both sides of the sets. See the 1975 set obverse below. Note that the obverse label in Norwegian coincides exactly with the label in English on the reverse. The 1974 set has the same bi-lingual label.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1300357[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>As I am not familiar with the sets that the Norwegian mints issued, I just assumed that this was the Sandhill type as it had 8 coins, and that it was issued by the mint at Kongsberg. </p><p><br /></p><p>You may of course be perfectly correct and it may not be a mint product. I simply do not know. What I can attest to is the the coins are sealed between two layers. One layer is clear and smooth. The other layer is a stippled. They both appear to be composed of a flexible but not soft plastic and they are as fresh as the day they were made. Whatever it is, it is definitely not a soft PVC plastic.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="SRSNUM, post: 7530952, member: 102988"]I should have shown both sides of the sets. See the 1975 set obverse below. Note that the obverse label in Norwegian coincides exactly with the label in English on the reverse. The 1974 set has the same bi-lingual label. [ATTACH=full]1300357[/ATTACH] As I am not familiar with the sets that the Norwegian mints issued, I just assumed that this was the Sandhill type as it had 8 coins, and that it was issued by the mint at Kongsberg. You may of course be perfectly correct and it may not be a mint product. I simply do not know. What I can attest to is the the coins are sealed between two layers. One layer is clear and smooth. The other layer is a stippled. They both appear to be composed of a flexible but not soft plastic and they are as fresh as the day they were made. Whatever it is, it is definitely not a soft PVC plastic.[/QUOTE]
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