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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cladking, post: 487979, member: 68&quot;]This is about the size of it.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>For a coin to get to your hands without marking it almost has to go through all the hoppers and bins on top so it doesn&#039;t get scuffed up.&nbsp; This would be extremely unusual since the bins tend to be kept full.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>There&#039;s another problem which can be almost as bad or even worse for some dates; almost all the coins can be very poorly made.&nbsp; Even if you do find a coin that isn&#039;t banged up it might be a very weak strike from misaligned and worn out dies.&nbsp; Some dies are horribly overused and this dramatically reduces the odds of finding an early die state coin.&nbsp; There can be other problems such as poor surfaces and retained planchet scratches that plague some dates.&nbsp; There are some moderns which actually have all of these problems and just nice attractive specimens are elusive.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>All the states issues were saved in significant quantity probably but that doesn&#039;t assure that nice gemmy and near gem examples will be available.&nbsp; The Delawares, for instance, are tough in gem and were not saved in such vast numbers.&nbsp; There will be others as well.</p><p><br /></p><p>The only reason I&#039;ve not started seriously collecting these yet is that it takes a few years to learn what will be common and what will be scarce.&nbsp; Gems can be common in Cleveland and rare everywhere else.&nbsp; It&#039;s much the same principle as the extra leaf WI quarters were pretty common in Tucson.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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