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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;yakpoo, post: 1720611, member: 18157&quot;]I ordered a couple of sets last week...they just look too cool to pass up! </p><p><br /></p><p>The Mint website says they won&#039;t be available for shipment until 9/30/2013. Perhaps that&#039;s due to the shortage of physical silver everyone&#039;s been talking about. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie9" alt=":eek:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Btw, has anyone heard how the &quot;enhancements&quot; are done?</p><p><br /></p><p>The best I can tell from the Mint&#039;s website is that the contrast is made by a combination of &quot;light frosting&quot;, &quot;heavy frosting&quot;, and &quot;uncirculated finish&quot; on the fields and devices of the uncirculated coin. Would that be proof frosting (laser?) on an uncirculated coin?</p><p><br /></p><p>...interesting if true! (error coins, anyone?)</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://catalog.usmint.gov/wcsstore/ConsumerDirect/images/catalog/en_US/S40_detailed_alt_2.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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