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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 1694751, member: 112&quot;]Up until 1959 Mint Sets were issued by the mint in cardboard holders like this one - </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH]257149.vB[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>And those cardboard holders were very conducive to toning. So there are a great many coins, often with spectacular toning, that came from those sets. 1958 sets in particular are very well known for having produced many stunning toned coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>The target toning that you mention is usually the result of coins having been stored in cardboard coin albums, which were and still are very popular among collectors. As for there being something in the alloy from specific years, no there wasn&#039;t.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Some will agree, others will disagree. But the population numbers are a very poor indicator for several reasons. One of them being that until 2001 NGC would not even grade any US coin minted after 1964. So the population numbers, of modern coins, are greatly skewed for that reason all by itself, without even taking the other reasons into account.</p><p><br /></p><p>Another of the most important reasons that pop numbers are a poor indicator is that for about the last 10 years NGC has graded approximately 50% more coins per month than PCGS does. That allowed NGC to not only catch up to PCGS in pop numbers, but to surpass them.</p><p><br /></p><p>Bottom line, those for those 2 reasons alone, and there are several more, pop numbers should never be used to judge which company is better than the other. To be honest, in my opinion, it cannot even be determined which company is better than the other. In a general sense, both companies should be considered to be equals.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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