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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;jody526, post: 802195, member: 578&quot;]The &quot;Black Beauties&quot;, that I am familiar with, are dark colored nickels, mostly from the late Fifties.</p><p>They are business strikes, and resulted from poor Minting, mainly during the annealing and washing processes.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve seen them in many differring shades of brown and black.</p><p>I don&#039;t consider them to be &quot;rare&quot;, but uncirculated examples are not extremely common.</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;Black Beauty&quot; was orriginally conceived as a marketing term by dealers seeking to move product by inventing a catch phrase, that hopefully would generate interest in coins that were considered, by many, to be undesirable.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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