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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cladking, post: 362872, member: 68&quot;]Grerat answers.</p><p><br /></p><p>The SMS coins were produced in San Francisco and then the retired dies were used to strike coins for circulation (in San Francisco) to help ease the coin shortage.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>They used quite a few different techniques on the SMS coins especially in &#039;65/ &#039;66.&nbsp; By &#039;67 they had mostly settled on one technique which used basined dies striking polished planchets a single time but there was a lot more variability before this and coins exhibiting these methods can still be found in the sets.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Many of the coins from all three sets can be found which appear almost indistinguishable from frosted proofs.&nbsp; Most are struck only a single time so they tend not to have the square rims and razor sharp strikes.&nbsp; The bulk of the SMS coins look like very high quality circulation strikes.&nbsp; There are a handfull which appear to be actual proofs.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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