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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;nightowl, post: 750437, member: 18614&quot;]I&#039;ll have this in hand by this weekend. It&#039;s been said that of true business strikes, all 3 top tier TPGs haven&#039;t graded 100 of these...even though 16,000 were minted...by some accounts 16,900. </p><p><br /></p><p>The old scotch tape glue residue will melt away with acetone. </p><p><br /></p><p>I found it curious that the the same dies were used to strike the proofs and the business strikes for this coin in 1880. There&#039;s not even a hint of prooflike surfaces, so I believe that this is a rare business strike.</p><p><br /></p><p>Probably took &quot;really big ones&quot; to pay what I did for this coin from these pictures, but I think it was worth a shot, and if it turns out to be really nice in hand and with the glue residue removed...then I think I will be able to mark it &quot;cheap&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p>Nightowl[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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