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Message:: [QUOTE="fiddlehead, post: 6453925, member: 31286"]For sure.  Well I suppose obviously all Euro imports don't look the same, although perhaps there are similarities in batches.  (wouldn't it nice to tour their vaults?) Doug Winter had a bunch of them a few years ago and yes he said that's where they were from and I saw a couple of them in person and they had a similar look.  I even owned a couple of them but traded them off as I didn't really like them all that much. I remember trading one for a another a grade lower and a less common year that looked a lot better - in person and in pictures. Knowing what they look like in person and comparing that look to the pictures (the pictures do get better and better, don't they?) is the best I can do and I think I can spot them ...  but that may only be my impression.  Maybe when the virus is abated I will actually get to coin shows and see more variety. There's a dark, almost moldy sort of look I don't like much that I may falsely attribute to being from European vaults but I suppose it's the look I don't like, regardless of where it came from.  As to MS Saints, there are so many of them compared to pre civil war and Carson City Double Eagles that I suppose it's apples and oranges.  I own a common year MS 64 Saint with a CAC sticker on it.  I bought it for bullion at a bullion price when gold was way down a few years back.  It's lovely.  Nicest bullion piece I ever saw.[/QUOTE]