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<p>[QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 1321586, member: 112"]It's not hard to understand. All you have to do is consider a few things. A coin from a production run, struck with new dies and where everything was just perfect. The die spacing was just right, the die alignment was just right, the striking pressure was just right, a better than usual planchet just happened to get fed into the press at that same time all of these other things occurred - and an exceptional coin from the production run is the result. Maybe even quite a few exceptional coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now when you go to compare this exceptional coin to the Mint Set coins and it looks better than they do, there's a reason for that too. The opposite happened with the particular set or sets that you're comparing it to. Maybe they (the Mint Set coins) came from dies near the end of their life, maybe the adjustments were off slightly, maybe the planchets were worse than others, there's a multitude of possible explanations.</p><p><br /></p><p>Point is it happens from time, it just doesn't happen very often.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 1321586, member: 112"]It's not hard to understand. All you have to do is consider a few things. A coin from a production run, struck with new dies and where everything was just perfect. The die spacing was just right, the die alignment was just right, the striking pressure was just right, a better than usual planchet just happened to get fed into the press at that same time all of these other things occurred - and an exceptional coin from the production run is the result. Maybe even quite a few exceptional coins. Now when you go to compare this exceptional coin to the Mint Set coins and it looks better than they do, there's a reason for that too. The opposite happened with the particular set or sets that you're comparing it to. Maybe they (the Mint Set coins) came from dies near the end of their life, maybe the adjustments were off slightly, maybe the planchets were worse than others, there's a multitude of possible explanations. Point is it happens from time, it just doesn't happen very often.[/QUOTE]
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