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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Talespin, post: 688889, member: 20477&quot;]Ok, so what I understand from reading on this forum and from other liturature is that the mint creates two qualities of coinage, Proof and Business strike. The business strike is meant for circulation, and the dealers buy these coins directly from the mint to prevent the most minimum amount of wear to the coin, but you can find the same quality of coinage at a bank or other places if you are lucky. The coinage that numistmatists know as uncirculated are business stike coins with little to know wear to maintain mint-state quality. Am I correct? Now another question that I have is&nbsp; the coins that the mint has in their souviner sets, are those the same business strike coins that we get from coin dealers, and the mint just set aside some bags of business strike coins for their sets? Thanks again in advance and Thank you to all that have replied so far.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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