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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;-jeffB, post: 1969756, member: 27832&quot;]Well, the Kennedys finally arrived Friday. They&#039;re pretty coins, to be sure, but all of them appear to have flaws, and I&#039;m trying to decide what to do about it.</p><p><br /></p><p>First, disclosure/statement-of-purpose: I bought five with the notion that I might flip at least three of them, helping to subsidize one or two that I would keep. I was intrigued by MCM&#039;s $1350 offer.</p><p><br /></p><p>The first three I opened were quite similar -- no glaring flaws at first glance, but a filmy area in a circular pattern around the obverse, visible only under certain angles of lighting. No big reverse problems. I was starting to wonder if it was present on all coins of this issue, but the fourth and fifth coins didn&#039;t display it -- the fourth had a similar effect in a different area, and the fifth has an out-and-out smear in the left obverse field, looks like an imprint from a cotton glove with some grease on it.</p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s easy to find flaws under strong oblique light and high magnification. I don&#039;t know whether these are 69s or something lower, but I&#039;m pretty sure none of them would make 70.</p><p><br /></p><p>So, my dilemma (trilemma?):</p><p><br /></p><p>I could send them back to the mint for exchange. I&#039;d presumably have quite a wait for the replacements, I&#039;d miss any opportunity to get First Strike grading (I don&#039;t care, but the irrational market does), and it seems likely that the current &quot;gotta-have-it-now&quot; premiums will have evaporated by then.</p><p><br /></p><p>I could send them back for a refund. I&#039;d lose no money other than shipping, but it feels kind of pointless -- and I <i>would</i> like to have at least one nice example.</p><p><br /></p><p>I could send them to MCM; I&#039;d happily take $1350 each for them. But I saw a comment that MCM reserves the right to refuse and return them -- and if they did that, I&#039;d be past the window for returning them to the Mint, most likely. I don&#039;t know how large the risk is that MCM would reject them.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ll post some images shortly. Here&#039;s an overview of the field:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]349252[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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