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Message:: [QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 487806, member: 112"]Not sure why you find it hard to believe. The same is true for pretty much all business strike coins of every denomination from every year the US Mint has issued coins. As clad mentioned, about the only exceptions are the satin finish mint sets from the past few years. The reason is simple. First of all the mint makes no effort to strike exceptional coins for commerce. Second is the minting process itself. The coins are struck at a rate of a 1,000 per minute or more. After being struck they are ejected from the press into a hopper with thousands and thousands of other coins. They are they literally shoveled into huge bags until the desired weight is achived. The bags are then picked up by forklifts and transported to the shipping bay. They are then transported to distrubution points for the Fed who treats them in the same way. During the entire process the coins go through numerous counting machines, sorting machines and are generally beat half to death before they ever reach the public. So how could you expect to find anything that would grade higher than 67 ? Even that grade is exceptional considering the circumstances.[/QUOTE]