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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Clawcoins, post: 4853577, member: 77814&quot;]definitely a ridge ring.</p><p><br /></p><p>you&#039;ll learn that the MINT is in business to create coinage for commerce. They are not creating it (the circulated ones) for collectors.&nbsp; So the coins only have to be recognizable to cashiers, etc. ... perfection is not the name of the game here.&nbsp; So they run the dies as long as possible to create money for currency ... low quality requirements.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you were able to have *all* the coins from one die set you would see nice crisp details on the first ones and from that point on they would start to deteriorate slowly and slowly (small pieces of metal banging on small pieces of metal creates wear).&nbsp; You could probably put them in bunches of early to later and later until the die dies.&nbsp; The example you have is on the tail end of die life.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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