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Message:: [QUOTE="cncman, post: 536311, member: 17256"]OK, so curiosity got the better of me and I broke out one of the rolls with the circular gouge on it, I must say I have a mixed review on the cent. The reverse looks much better in person than in pics I have seen, it is still rather unartistic but when you hold it at different angles you can see the details fairly well, they are all very well struck with great detail in all the areas, very sharp, the fields are close to proof like, there was a modest amount of bag marks, not too bad considering these must have come out of bags and gotten rolled for the bank. There are the spots on most of them like someone else mentioned, waterspots and these grey spots too. There seems to be a halo effect of dullness around the obverse rim on most of them, I think maybe stress on the metal from when it was punched? There seem to be radiating lines in the dullness which I usually see when metal has been stretched. The best one I found actually had a fingerprint on it! Just my luck, over all I think 2 out of the roll are album worthy if you aren't real picky. so what, about 4% keepers out of a roll, sounds about right.[/QUOTE]