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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 32596, member: 66&quot;]It depends on what the item is and what the original packaging is.&nbsp; Any proof set since 1955 I rally wouldn&#039;t care about, too many of them around.&nbsp; An original box 1936 - 55 is a little more interesting.&nbsp; And the further back you go the harder it is to find and original holder and the cooler they become.&nbsp; The original holdrs for the commemoritive half dllars can be interesting.&nbsp; How many original late 19th century proof set holders have you seen?&nbsp; How many CASED pre-1858 proof sets have you ever heard of?&nbsp; I know of four and I am only sure of the existance on one of them today.&nbsp; (1843 set in the ANS collection)&nbsp; Early British sets from this era are seldom seen but do trn up from time to time.&nbsp; In the 1790 and early 1800&#039;s proofs for the SoHo mint or the royal mint would sometime come in copper shells.&nbsp; Think of copper Kointains made to close tolerances and a pressed fit made with eighteenth century artisanship.&nbsp; These shells have done an excellent job of protecting these proofs for over two hundred years, yet when the Boulton and Watt collections were sold many dealer who managed to get some of these coins took the coins out of these original shells and had the coins slabbed and discarded the shells!&nbsp; Sacrilige![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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