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<p>[QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 3927456, member: 112"]Darryl I've looked at tens of thousands of original Mint and Proof sets over the years - I collected them for almost 40 years - and never once have I ever seen anything like what I'm seeing on these coins. </p><p><br /></p><p>Milk spots on some of the Proofs ? Yeah, I've seen that more than a few times. But what I'm seeing on these doesn't look anything like milk spots. But since I'm seeing what appears to be some kind of machine damage on the coins from counting or packaging, particularly the '62 - that's about all I can think of that it can be from - it makes me wonder if some kind of contaminant got on the coins during the process.</p><p><br /></p><p>I suspect that about the only way you're ever gonna find out what it actually is on the coins is to take samples and have them analyzed. Or send the coins to a lab and simply let them analyze it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 3927456, member: 112"]Darryl I've looked at tens of thousands of original Mint and Proof sets over the years - I collected them for almost 40 years - and never once have I ever seen anything like what I'm seeing on these coins. Milk spots on some of the Proofs ? Yeah, I've seen that more than a few times. But what I'm seeing on these doesn't look anything like milk spots. But since I'm seeing what appears to be some kind of machine damage on the coins from counting or packaging, particularly the '62 - that's about all I can think of that it can be from - it makes me wonder if some kind of contaminant got on the coins during the process. I suspect that about the only way you're ever gonna find out what it actually is on the coins is to take samples and have them analyzed. Or send the coins to a lab and simply let them analyze it.[/QUOTE]
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