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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Collect89, post: 1848877, member: 15445&quot;]I&#039;ve got two of the USSR cards and one of the China cards.&nbsp; The Soviet coins are all completely blemish-free and include mirror fields.&nbsp; They certainly must be proof manufacture.</p><p><br /></p><p>The China set does have a couple coins that are proof but most coins in the collection are high grade MS.</p><p><br /></p><p>I did break-up one card when I bought this lot.&nbsp;&nbsp; The Chad card had a couple tough coins that I needed to fill a couple holes in my collection.&nbsp; Hindsight is always 20-20.&nbsp; I probably should have left the Chad card intact.&nbsp; I recognize this mistake every time I look at the Chad 500 Franc coin in my one-coin-per-country album.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here is a photo depicting a USSR and a PRC card:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]308554[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>This last photo shows the two USSR cards.&nbsp; The coins have mirror fields and there is not a single contact mark to be found.&nbsp; I think they are all proof manufacture but proof is not listed in Krause.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]308553[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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