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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GregH, post: 8309571, member: 75936&quot;]Well, consider me educated! That’s an astonishing price difference for a patinated vs unpatinated coin. The owner would need to protect the coin from oxygen! How long do you think that will last?</p><p><br /></p><p>Beauty is in the eye of the beholder - I like a coin with a little toning and patina personally. But yes, it is a lovely coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>It’s also an absurd example of artificial rarity. With a mintage of 5.5 million, it’s hardly a rare coin. But once you assign a mark out of seventy, and a colour - suddenly we have a miracle - an amazing rarity. This is actually a form of OCD.</p><p><br /></p><p>I’ve heard there are also collectors who are trying to accumulate a complete set of Sheldon numbers. And collectors aiming to collect a set of coins at the lowest possible grade. Amazing![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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