Ah, I knew there was a reasonable explanation. Thanks for clearing that up Ken ;)
Well, we're still a bit early in the year to speculate on the mintage figures. Since these are NIFC coins, I would venture to guess the final...
Sorry dude, not interested. Pattern rarities are better appreciated as such, rarities. There's no positive justification to reproduce these.
Looks like a really nice high grade business strike, can't even say for certain it's a slam dunk mint state either from those photos.
And if you scramble the letters around, you get the name of some popular tidy whities that were pretty mainstream in the 1980's.
Yeah, generally they are problematic, bent, cleaned, etc. The problem free examples easily hit the $100+ for the common assayers.
Same here Paddy, looks like a phenomenal example.
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