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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;harley bissell, post: 5010950, member: 88212&quot;]In my considered opinion the Red Book has information but no ability to determine the rarity of coins. WITNESS =- The 1950-d nickel was reported to be rare even before it was available so nearly the entire run was held by collectors and never circulated. If you attempt to find one in less than MS you will search for many years before you find one. If you try to buy one you may have to pay more than MS price to do it. Thus it is easily proven that genuine circulated specimens are much rarer than MS beauties. In the case of the OP coin there are a known number of MS specimens and a much lower number of lower grade specimens. You could check the numbers listed in the TPG census reports to get an idea but I would prefer that I had the rarer one regardless of what the red book folks say. Nice find OP.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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