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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 336497, member: 112&quot;]With a mintage of only 650 coins the dies were not worn. But quite a few of the coins, even though they are Proofs, can be found with weak strikes. That&#039;s very unusal when you consider all Proofs are struck at least twice. The only thing I can attribute it to is that at the time the mint was trying to prevent the issuance of coins with a cameo appearance and thus they were probably striking them with lower pressures.</p><p><br /></p><p>Personally, I think the TPG&#039;s are overly forgiving when grading these particular coins, epsecially PCGS - I&#039;ll use this an example - PCGS graded this as PF63.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.proxibid.com/AuctionImages/2233/10191/Detail/411773o.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Admittedly, that particular coin is probably&nbsp; at the extreme end of the spectrum for being vastly over-graded. But it serves as a good example of what I am saying.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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