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<p>[QUOTE="19Lyds, post: 1488783, member: 15929"]The 77 isn't planchet chatter which is technically annealing marks imparted to the planchet during the softening phase of production. If the strike is done with enough pressure, those annealing marks go away with natural metal flow. Most often, they appear near the outer area of the coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>The 77 just looks beat up from circulation abuse.</p><p><br /></p><p>I seriously doubt that it has album toning and if the coins were sold in a "lot", the others are probably not album toned either.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="19Lyds, post: 1488783, member: 15929"]The 77 isn't planchet chatter which is technically annealing marks imparted to the planchet during the softening phase of production. If the strike is done with enough pressure, those annealing marks go away with natural metal flow. Most often, they appear near the outer area of the coin. The 77 just looks beat up from circulation abuse. I seriously doubt that it has album toning and if the coins were sold in a "lot", the others are probably not album toned either.[/QUOTE]
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