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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;JBK, post: 43737, member: 1101&quot;]The hucksters used to market these back in the 70s and early 80s, but I wish I had snapped some up.&nbsp; What happened was, the F; used to be a premium place to have proof sets made.&nbsp; It was profit for the FM and for the issuing country.&nbsp; Most of these countries would normally not even have had proof sets, but the FM offered to come in and make and market the sets.&nbsp; Some of the coins were even designed by Gilroy Roberts, a former US Mint engraver. </p><p><br /></p><p>To help keep things legit, the FM would them strike some business strikes with the FM dies and send the coins off to the country involved.&nbsp; Somehow most ended back in the US to be sold to collectors.&nbsp; Then, normal business strikes would have been made by whatever mint the country used for such things.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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