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1936 SET Columbia PDS Set MS65 PCGS

Currency:USD Category:Coins & Paper Money / US Coins Start Price:1,300.00 USD Estimated At:1.00 - 1,000,000.00 USD
1936 SET Columbia PDS Set MS65 PCGS
<B>1936 SET Columbia PDS Set MS64 to MS65 PCGS.</B></I> The set includes: <B>1936 MS65; 1936-D MS65;</B></I> and a <B>1936-S MS64.</B></I> All three coins are tab-toned with nearly identical mottled sea-green, peach, and ruby-red patina. The original three-slot holder that held these coins for 50 years accompanies the lot. These three coins were part of a time capsule sealed in 1936 by the Columbia Sesqui-Centennial Commission. The time capsule was opened in 1986, Columbia's bicentennial.<BR>Other documents associated with the time capsule are also included, such as copies of the minutes of a Sept. 16, 1936 meeting of the Columbia Sesqui-Centennial Commission discussing the commemorative coins; copies of a letter from James H. Hammond, Lawyer, to the "Chairman of the Bycentennial (sic) Cellebration (sic);" an empty envelope from the Columbia Sesqui-Centennial commission addressed to the Bi-Centennial Commission; copies of various correspondence concerning congressional authorization of the Columbia halves; two signed letters from John W. Flitter of the Columbia Bicentennial Committee concerning a time capsule lot of Columbia halves and a 1936 Sesquicentennial wooden nickel issue; and (6) Columbia, S.C. Sesqui-Centennial Celebration wooden nickels, two examples each of the 1, 2, and 5 denominations.<BR><I>From The Frank DuVall Collection of U.S. Commemoratives.</B></I><BR><BR><b>Shipping:</b> Coins & Currency (<a target="_blank" href="http://www.heritageauctions.com/common/shipping.php">view shipping information</a>)
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