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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 24678403, member: 66&quot;]As Messydesk said they were wrapped in tissue paper and shipped to the buy by mail.&nbsp; If you bought a complete set you COULD have them shipped in a holder such as in shown for the King of Siam set, but those holders were custom made and the buyer had to pay for the holder to be made. (they were made by a local Philadelphia business)&nbsp; Such sets are extremely rare.&nbsp; John J Pitman had at least two of them, possibly three (The buyer of the complete 1843 set removed the three gold coins had them slabbed and sold them off so that set is no longer complete) , and there are at least a couple of sets in Museum collections.&nbsp; I believe the ANS has two possibly three of them.</p><p><br /></p><p>Except for the fact the color is off I thing the pictures 1868 set is one of the five sets made all struck in aluminum&nbsp; At least two of those sets survived in the original holders but one of those has had the coins removed and slabbed.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Same here, and if I got it I would crack them all out of the slabs they are currently in and put them back in the holder where they belong.&nbsp; (The image shown above is photoshopped.&nbsp; The coins were all removed from the holder and slabbed several years before the gold presidential medal was added to the set.&nbsp; The medal was not with the set when it turned up in London in 1962.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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