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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Burton Strauss III, post: 7539323, member: 59677&quot;]Very roughly [USER=119754]@PamR[/USER], you can focus on Mint State coins: Where you are looking to collect the most perfectly preserved example of the Mint&#039;s artistry.</p><p><br /></p><p>Or you can focus on circulated coins - IMNSHO coins as they were intended to be used. In that realm, never lose the sense of wonder because people have used and abused coins in countless ways over the millennia. </p><p><br /></p><p>Every time you think you understand the abuse people can do to coins, they find something new. How long after the locomotive was invented do you think it took for somebody to wonder what happens if I put a half-cent on the tracks in front of it...</p><p><br /></p><p>i.e. you can never make something idiot-proof, the universe keeps inventing better idiots.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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