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Message:: [QUOTE="V. Kurt Bellman, post: 2881961, member: 71723"]A lot of Susie's that were put away developed a little toning from whatever they were stored in. It's attractive stuff, for the most part. Many are yellowish but I've seen purples and blues too. Here's why the 1979-P SBA's wide rims tend to be a little rough. They were a "late discovery" that took a few years to be noticed and accepted as a variety. All the earliest ones were the common narrow rim, and they were heavily "put back" or hoarded in massive numbers. The wide rim variety was a "late in the production year" extra run and had been made from rehubbed dies after the expected production run at Philly was finished. They essentially are done with a 1980 hub and die that was redated 1979. The hoarding on the East Coast was so bad, they temporarily ran short and needed to run an extra run of 1979's at Philly only, and they were done with dies made from the rehubbed and backdated 1980/79 hub. Nobody was told about the difference and all those wide rims ended up grinding through commerce. I consider myself lucky to have found a NGC MS64 in "circulation", actually a piggy bank.[/QUOTE]