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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;vintagemintage, post: 2493032, member: 75988&quot;]While searching through a roll of Halves I found what I thought was a nice MS &#039;73-D:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]527957[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>A second disappointing look showed the all too familiar circular gouges from a rolling machine:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]527958[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]527959[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>I seem to find this type of damage more frequently over time and it makes me wonder:</p><p><br /></p><p>Since Half Dollars are rarely seen in circulation, I think that a significant proportion of those that we get in BWRs are re-processed from a past CRHer&#039;s dump. The abundance of different marks that I find on many Halves tends to support this theory. It&#039;s likely that most CRHers are going to keep on CRHing (I know that I plan to) and our numbers could be growing. The banks aren&#039;t likely to do away with their rolling machines either, so unless a better machine comes along I&#039;m afraid that the day will come when MOST Halves will have this damage[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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