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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Howard Black, post: 3513166, member: 97119&quot;]Well, yeah, as long as you&#039;re the guy who has the nice ones and not the cruddy ones!</p><p><br /></p><p>(A few minutes ago, while trying to catch up on my backlog of checking coins for errors and so forth, I picked up a beautiful BU ATB quarter, in pretty much proof-like condition --near-mirror fields (seems like Denver polishes the hell out of their dies, and Philadelphia sandblasts theirs).</p><p><br /></p><p>Like I said, a beautiful coin -- the reeding was crisp and sharp, the copper core bright and untarnished, the coin had zero wear -- and about a hundred fine scratches applied all over the reverse, very obviously placed there intentionally.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve got plenty others of that coin, but still, it bugged me. And what if it were a fifty year old coin with a low mintage, high value -- with a large cud, an RPM, and a doubled die -- and a huge &quot;X&quot; deeply scratched across the entire surface? (I&#039;ve seen coins like that -- the &quot;X,&quot; not the rest of it, but it&#039;s IMO a statistical certainty that the right coin will end up in the wrong hands at some point.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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