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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ksparrow, post: 890576, member: 7638&quot;]I wasn&#039;t paying much attention to the early P mint trades, until I realized how scarce they are. This is the first 74-P I can remember seeing on eBay in a very long time. </p><p><br /></p><p>Bowers, in his &quot;Guide,&quot;&nbsp; p.374, says that &quot;Most were shipped to China.&quot;&nbsp; and says that it is the &quot;Most common chopmarked Philadelphia mint Trade Dollar, one of the most common of all chopmarked trade dollars.&quot;&nbsp; This would suggest that un-chopmarked examples are rather hard to find. </p><p><br /></p><p>He estimated 2,500-4,500 survivors from VF through AU. </p><p><br /></p><p>I am still surprised at how a coin can be so dark and yet have so much underlying surface reflectivity.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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