Expert: Jim Lawniczak - 8/25/2007

Question
My grandfather collected all sorts of coin sets.  I just found "The Collectors Set of The American Revolution" and "The First Commemorative Series Celebrating the Centennial of the Philadelphia Zoological Garden"  Both sets have empty spaces in the case for two coins.  I don't know if he never completed the set or if the set was meant to be this way.  Both sets were minted by The Historical Mint of Long Island, Ltd. The coins were designed or produced by Harry Rosin.  Can you help me?  What are these coins?  Do they have value?

Answer
Marsha, boy this is really obscure.  A search for the Historical Mint of Long Island returns nothing on www.google.com and on www.ebay.com.  Similar searches for the Phily zoo series and the American Revolution series give me nothing.  These can't be that old as the Phily Zoo was founded in 1874 so its centennial would have been in 1974.  I've never had this happen before.  But in my experience, sets of this type usually don't have much demand, and thus not much retail value.  Harry Rosin was a Philadelphia artist who died in 1973, a google search shows that much.  Sorry I can't help more, Jim Lawniczak