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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;HawkeEye, post: 3005916, member: 86305&quot;]PCGS actually assigns these a catalog number and lists them in their population report for every counterstrike.&nbsp; If you look at their web site you can see them.&nbsp; The number that have graded is very small, less than 200, and there are some interesting twists.&nbsp; (Yours is probably 525162 ( <a href="https://www.pcgs.com/pop/detail.aspx?c=789" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.pcgs.com/pop/detail.aspx?c=789" rel="nofollow">https://www.pcgs.com/pop/detail.aspx?c=789</a> )</p><p><br /></p><p>In the sales effort the Commission marked some with SL and others with GL in addition to the state and number.&nbsp; This stood for Silver Lavalier and Gold Lavalier, or levels of sales awards.&nbsp; Many of these coins are considered damaged by PCGS because they are usually in a bezel or have a soldered loop attached.&nbsp; The state and number were used to create interest and many of the coins were sold at auction to drum up sales for the cost of the memorial.</p><p><br /></p><p>At least half of the ones I have researched have N graded because of some overstrike problem, bezel, or just damage.&nbsp; So the number of actual graded coins is very rare even though many were counterstamped.&nbsp; I am looking for a publication done years ago that is probably the counterstamp Bible, but so far it has eluded me.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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