RARE 26 pc Matched SN set SMI ONLY HERE!!! NORFED Includes the RARE TEXAS Double Date error! only 3 left! Start Price USD 2,200.00 Current Price USD 2,200.00 Time Left - Bid Count 0 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Saturday, July 19, 2008 End Time Saturday, July 26, 2008 Location Cassopolis, MI See more about 'RARE 26 pc Matched SN set SMI ONLY HERE!!! NORFED' Description This is a complete set of 26 Matched SN (serial numberd and hallmarked)  pieces of the SMI (State Monetary Initiative) Liberty Dollar issued by NORFED in 2006.  See below for general information on the SMI project. Currently, only 24 people own one of these Matched numbered sets, and I know them all since I shipped all of them except Bernard's personal sets, and I can tell you this; No counterfieting banker owns one!  There was not one among the stuff siezed by the Feds, so they won't get one that way, either!! Join this elite group of Liberty Dollar collectors and become the 25th person to own one!!  I have only 3 of these Matched numbered sets available!  When they are gone it will be very difficult to find one for sale and next to impossible to complete a set of your own.  UPDATE!! I purchased the matching serial numbers of the RARE, TEXAS Double Date Error from RCO Dave Gillie for my last three matched number sets!  When Dave realized that he had received the lions share of the 500 error pieces minted, he sent 100 of them to Bernard vonNotHaus for numbering.  None of the sets I prevoiously sold included this RARE SMI piece, which was created by accident when the mint used the new 2007 obverse die on the second (and last) order of the TEXAS SMI!!  The piece that matches your set will be included!  If you already have one of these rare numbered sets, contact Dave to see if he still has the TX DD with your number available.  The set is not really complete without it!! I am the only one who has these Matched serial number sets for sale!!! All pieces are mirror finish BU housed in airtite holders in an album designed for them.  The photo below shows the #57 matched serial number set with close ups of the state hallmarks.  This medallion set is sold as a collector item only and the pieces therein are in no way represented as ‘coins’ or ‘legal tender’.  The set will be shipped  insured priority mail. In my personal opinion, these beautiful silver dollar sized pieces represent a grass roots effort by the people to return to a value based system of trade (many were circulated in barter trades) to combat the hidden theft of their wealth via inflation resulting from a monetary system with no intrinsic value.  That makes the early issues of the Liberty Dollar akin to the early silver dollar issues of the fledgling United States, with many pieces of both series’ being quite rare.   Check my Ebay store for other great items (click the red door) See the entire one ounce series at the Liberty Dollar encyclopedia website http://users.dishmail.net/libertydollarcatalog/.    SMI History Each State piece was sponsored by an RCO (Regional Currency Office) in the state, so if there was no RCO to sponsor it, it did not get made.  Exactly half of the 50 states had an RCO to step forward and sponsor his state.  That is why there are only 25 of the states in a complete set.   The SMI were issued in three different varieties as follows;   The GI (general issue) is an un-marked piece just as it came out of the mint press. The HM (hallmarked) is hand stamped by BNV with an outline of the state. The SN (serial numbered) pieces have a unique, hand stamped serial number and a hallmark.   Varying numbers of each type were produced for different states according to what the sponsoring RCO ordered.  A couple of states had 1000 pieces numbered.  Many more had only 100 pieces numbered.  I believe there are fewer hallmarked only pieces than there are numbered.  There are quite a few GI pieces for each of these states, but some of them are quite scarce because there was a total of 500 pieces minted for the state that included all three types.  Since at least 100 were numbered and presumably a minimum of 50 hallmarked, that left only 350 GI for states like ME, OR, MS, AL, ID, MO, NM and VA.  Many other states had a total of 1000 pieces made and some states like MI, CA, NY, NC, FL and PA had several thousand done.  As a result of the varying production, some state pieces are becoming quite hard to find.  There were only two RCOs who had the foresight to obtain small quantities of these pieces from each state and assemble complete sets for resale to collectors.  Both of them are Michigan RCOs.  Only one of those two RCOs assembled extra complete sets of hallmarked and numbered pieces.  Michigan RCO Ron Goodger spearheaded the cooperative effort between the 25 states to assemble sets of matched serial numbers.  Each RCO who participated got a set with all 25 pieces bearing the same serial number.  There are only 46 of these sets in existence and 11 of them belong to their creator, Bernard von Nothaus.  Another 23 sets are in the hands of the participating RCOs.  The remaining 13 sets are being sold by Ron to recover the costs of buying pieces for the sets from RCOs who were not collectors and did not want a set of their own.  Many of those have already been sold, leaving only three of these rare, matched serial number sets available. 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