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<p>[QUOTE="LA_Geezer, post: 3016706, member: 89393"]Unlike many collectors, I am not interested in odd/freak/mistake coins, ValpoBeginner; I guess that could include mistake packaging such as these mint sets. Many years ago my wife got a two-headed nickel in her change and we found out that these were just joke coins that were available everywhere. Maybe I should have paid attention to the time when I was a kid that I bought an Elvis Presley 45 RPM record that had the wrong label and artist on the flip side, it might have ended up being a rare collectible. I didn't even bother to play it, but just got back on my bike and rode to the store for a refund.</p><p><br /></p><p>Anyway, at my age, my eyesight is not good enough to notice the small imperfections that mesmerize many a collector. As a lagniappe, a coin seller sent me a 2017 penny with some sort of mistake on it. Since it came in a cardboard flip I just put it into this box of coins I have. If it had been I who received that mint set with the wrong dated coins in it I probably wouldn't have noticed at all.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="LA_Geezer, post: 3016706, member: 89393"]Unlike many collectors, I am not interested in odd/freak/mistake coins, ValpoBeginner; I guess that could include mistake packaging such as these mint sets. Many years ago my wife got a two-headed nickel in her change and we found out that these were just joke coins that were available everywhere. Maybe I should have paid attention to the time when I was a kid that I bought an Elvis Presley 45 RPM record that had the wrong label and artist on the flip side, it might have ended up being a rare collectible. I didn't even bother to play it, but just got back on my bike and rode to the store for a refund. Anyway, at my age, my eyesight is not good enough to notice the small imperfections that mesmerize many a collector. As a lagniappe, a coin seller sent me a 2017 penny with some sort of mistake on it. Since it came in a cardboard flip I just put it into this box of coins I have. If it had been I who received that mint set with the wrong dated coins in it I probably wouldn't have noticed at all.[/QUOTE]
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