I have a bunch of older halves in those old flips that I'm replacing now. Thanks Though it will take some time to soak them all in acetone. There's about 75 of them.
It's not. 1922 comes well struck. The light polishing is having the effect of accentuating the contrast, and thus the design detail, a bit.
You are correct. A little research showed that the reverse die was incorrect for high or medium relief coins.
I used about 200 new flips PLUS a handful of Provident/Apmex flips to put my old stuff in. A lot of grayed halves I had from early 60s to 1976 BiCentennials. Looks like I stopped collecting them after that, I believe they were all from change. A handful of Ike Dollar coins too. ooh, and a bunch of pennies I put in rolls back in the day with the decade I wrote on them. 50s, 60s, many blank. I stopped doing that in the mid 1980s. I like coins