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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cladking, post: 3362068, member: 68&quot;]Of course you&#039;re correct that a burnished planchet won&#039;t create a PL by itself. But I contend two things; a basined die striking a burnished planchet produces a much more dramatic PL and that a polished die striking a burnished planchet produces an unusually shiny coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>I could be mistaken about some of these points since the mint had always said that mint set coins were the same as regular production coins and wouldn&#039;t release any details about how these were made.&nbsp; Finally in 1997 they admitted the best coins went into mint sets and a few details were released starting ~2001.&nbsp; Most of what I know had to be gleaned just by looking at the coins and comparing them to regular issue coins.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>There are a lot of surprises in the mint sets.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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