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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 11878142, member: 10461&quot;]Can&#039;t say I&#039;ve seen many toner MTTs.&nbsp; I like the prooflike ones with contrast.&nbsp; They&#039;re really cool coins.&nbsp; One of the more appealing bullion-related issues, I think, because the retro design is fun.</p><p><br /></p><p>Kinda hard to beat a Pillar dollar for historical interest.&nbsp; I had a PCGS AU50 but swapped it for a proof 3c piece, which I subsequently swapped for something else.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://collectivecoin.imgix.net/8Cq9GhCUSRaZ2LBCmK7K_30410618_large.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>In the last year I finally got another.&nbsp; It&#039;s not as high grade as the one I had before, but it&#039;s an earlier date and I liked the contrasting grey toning on it a lot more.&nbsp; I shipped it off to NGC this morning, to get Photovision images done, so I&#039;ll have some prong-free pics of it.&nbsp; Can&#039;t wait to see how they turn out.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://collectivecoin.imgix.net/C5YyOiJSWOvVlPbMbCP0_01-Pillar%24-frame.png" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Good grief, man!&nbsp; What a beauty!&nbsp; That frosty contrast!&nbsp; Wow!&nbsp; I am truly envious of this one.&nbsp; I have a T$ off at PCGS right now, but I doubt it&#039;s gonna be a keeper for my collection, as it&#039;s almost certain to &quot;details&quot; grade for cleaning.</p><p><br /></p><p>Nice.&nbsp; My Hawaii half was only a PCGS XF40, but I liked the toning on it.&nbsp; I say &quot;was&quot; because I sold it, back when times were leaner.&nbsp; I need to get another some day.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://collectivecoin.imgix.net/e51jyVxsR6Sf2sLjUuVl_83068571_800.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Ooh!&nbsp; Another beauty that I&#039;m envious of!&nbsp; And I like that this one is blast white.&nbsp; I guess that mark by Lady Libertad&#039;s shin must be the only thing that kept this back from a higher grade.&nbsp; It has MS65 eye appeal otherwise.</p><p><br /></p><p>Sweet!&nbsp; You&#039;ve got me by one grade point- and a bit of luster, too, perhaps.&nbsp; That&#039;s really clean looking for a 63, at least on the obverse. Mine went off to NGC this morning for Photovision and reholdering, so I can get prong-free photos of it.&nbsp; It will be interesting to see if it looks any better in those than it does in these Goldberg&#039;s images.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://collectivecoin.imgix.net/HhXxJspSSSC00ADNfIDj_01-DragonYen-frame.png" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve always liked the Jadwigas, and have had one or two in my swapstock inventory, but never a &quot;keeper&quot; for my collection, as the ones I&#039;ve had were cleaned.&nbsp; Someday I&#039;ll get a nice MS coin, maybe.</p><p><br /></p><p>That&#039;s just bizzare.&nbsp; Is the lighter colored rectangular area on the dated side a toning anomaly, or part of the design?</p><p><br /></p><p>Cool coin.&nbsp; Congrats on the 70-grade.&nbsp; <a href="https://www.pcgs.com/cert/37681946" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.pcgs.com/cert/37681946" rel="nofollow">I&#039;ve only received one</a> in all my submissions over the years.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>It is of course because of you that I have Kazakhstan represented in my collection.&nbsp; I couldn&#039;t pass up that sci-fi-looking cyborg owl!</p><p><br /></p><p><font size="3">Edit- dang, I just noticed the prongs in these pix below.&nbsp; I should have sent this one off to NGC for reimaging with the rest that went this morning.&nbsp; Oh well.&nbsp; They&#039;re not too intrusive in this set of images, I guess.</font></p><p><img src="https://collectivecoin.imgix.net/qGv1ND2QceiNHJjCgNYQ_01-KazakhOwl-frame.png" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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