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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;physics-fan3.14, post: 2939839, member: 19165&quot;]Early US collectors often didn&#039;t know about mintmarks, either. The ones that did collect by date often ignored mintmarks. </p><p><br /></p><p>When collectors did save coins by date, Proofs were often saved because they were the &quot;nicest&quot; ones for the date. </p><p><br /></p><p>Really, its a miracle anything before the 1890&#039;s survived in MS condition.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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