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(3) coin ~set.......1965, 1966 and 1967 SMS
ROOSEVELT DIMES.

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An SMS coin is a coin that was in a U.S. Mint Set issued during the years 1965, 1966, and 1967. The U.S. Mint didn't strike Proof coins during these three years, so they issued Special Mint Sets (SMS sets) instead. SMS sets contain higher than normal quality coins which can be told apart from regular Uncirculated coins of the same year.

These coins are characterized by a better than average strike, since they were struck on higher-tonnage coin presses than circulation-quality coins, but they were not struck as Proofs.
SMS coins do not have any Mint marks.
In 1966 the San Francisco Assay Office began striking coins dated 1965, for inclusion in so-called United States Special Mint Sets (SMS.) These were issued in pliofilm packaging similar to that of recent Proof Sets. The coins in early 1965 sets are simi-brilliant or satiny (distinctive, but not equal in quality to Proofs); the coins in later 1965 sets feature very brilliant fields.
The San Francisco Assay Office started striking 1966-dated coins in August of that year, and its Special Mint Sets were packaged in rigid, sonically sealed plastic holders. The coins were struck once on unpolished planchets, unlike Proof coins (which are struck twice on polished planchets.) Also, unlike Proofs the SMS coins were allowed to come in contact with each other during production, which accounts for minor contact marks and abrasions. To achieve a brilliant finish, Mint technicians overpolished the coinage dies. The result was a tradeoff; most of the coins have prooflike brilliance, but many are missing polished off design details.
Sales of the 1967 sets were lackluster, however. The popularity of coin coin collecting had dropped from its peak in 1964. As a result, fewer collectors bought the 1967 sets, and today they are worth more than the 1965 and 1966.