SMS Coins

If an SMS coin is graded, does it get graded MS, PR, OR SP?

 

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It will be graded as MS

Here is my SMS Doubled Profile 1966 Kennedy Silver graded as MS 66 Cameo.

 

I mean for 1965-67 SMS.

 

what is sms?

 

For coins from 1965 - 1967 Special Mint Sets, PCGS used to use the prefix MS but now they use SP for "Special Strike". It would have made more sense if PCGS had changed the prefix to SMS (i.e. SMS65 or SMS66CAM), but that would have made to much sense.

PCGS is also marking the 1998-S Mattie and the "satin Finish" coins from modern mint sets as SP "Special Strikes".

 

There were also some 1964 SMS sets...possibly given as presentation sets by the Mint Director (Eva Adams). I've read that there may be as many as thirty (30) of these sets made.

 

Special Mint Set.

 

Special Mint set

 

All just myth and hype.

 

I got mine! (you mean you don't have yours? )

 

I was going to ask for some references supporting this, but I think your original thread at CU pretty much covers it:

http://forums.collectors.com/messageview.cfm?catid=30&threadid=831502

 

For maximum confusion, couldn't you have gotten a 1965 set in MS-65, a 1966 set in MS-66, and a 1967 set in MS-67? :devil:

 

The slabs will be diferent depending on when the coins where graded. They changed how they marked them in the middle of the river.

 

LOL! ...I confused myself (I posted the 1965 twice )

 

I've read a variety of articles on the subject...none that I can reference at the moment, though. It seems logical that as the Mint was preparing to make coins with the SMS finish they would make some test strikes. It would also seem "plausible" that a political appointee such as Eva Adams might use that opportunity to create some 1964 SMS coins as presentation sets to her Congressional supporters. Especially in the immediate aftermath of the Kennedy assassination.

Just because these sets may not have been an official release of the US Mint doesn't necessarily mean they don't exist. I would think (or like to think) that PCGS would have been very deliberate when coming to the conclusion that some 1964 coins they inspected were struck with the SMS finish. I agree that it would be nice if there was some sort of conclusive documentation to support a finding either way.

 

ROFLOL


When has NGC ever classifed this things as 1964 SMS? It has never happened.

Long live the "myth".