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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;yakpoo, post: 1390533, member: 18157&quot;]From everything I&#039;ve read on the subject, there are a few points that&nbsp; everyone &quot;seems&quot; to be in agreement (please correct or comment on any of&nbsp; these points)...</p><p><br /></p><p>1. Eva Adams had coins as part of her estate.</p><p>2. Upon the death of Eva Adams (1991), Lester Merkin is &quot;believed&quot; to have purchased much of her coin estate.</p><p>3.&nbsp; Shortly thereafter, Stack&#039;s auctioned off many (if not all) of the&nbsp; Lester Merkin 1964 &quot;SMS&quot; coins...presumably obtained from the Eva Adams&nbsp; estate.</p><p>4. Every Numismatist that has examined these coins &quot;in hand&quot;&nbsp; agree that these coins possess characteristics which clearly set&nbsp; themselves apart from Business and Proof strikes.</p><p><br /></p><p>It seems very&nbsp; odd (to me) that, if these coins were part of any type of SMS or special&nbsp; presentation set, none of the packaging survived. The packaging itself&nbsp; would be worth money. I would like to think that these coins were in&nbsp; sets that also contained the 1964-D Peace Dollar...which explains why&nbsp; the packaging had to be destroyed. What happened to the Peace Dollars?&nbsp; ...perhaps they&#039;re in the hands of a private collector waiting for a&nbsp; safe time to bring them out into the open.</p><p><br /></p><p>...<font size="3"><i><b>OR</b></i></font>,&nbsp; it could be that these coins were simply specimen coins, struck under&nbsp; greater pressure, for the US Mint to display to Members of&nbsp; Congress...and Eva Adams somehow came to own them.</p><p><br /></p><p>...I&#039;m speculating like everyone else and will be very interested to know the result of your inquiry.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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