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Message:: [QUOTE="cladking, post: 3276618, member: 68"]Frankly I didn't comment after the first picture because it appeared it could be AU.  An awful lot of '83-P's are AU's that were pulled out of circulation between 1983 and 1985.  Numismatic News ran a series of articles about how scarce these were and people started pulling them out of change. This one is pretty clean for the date but the grade is probably as much for the great luster as the lack of marking.  Most of what looks like scratches is just planchet defects that weren't struck out.  This is common on high spots and around the periphery. The coin was struck by fairly new dies but this isn't extremely uncommon for the date. The strike is better than typical. It certainly looks right in a 65 holder to me. It might be noted that the coin is a type "d" reverse. This isn't a recognized variety and might be only a hubbing variety but it is identified by the greater distance between the right side of the "N" in "UNUM" and the eagle's head.  These don't appear in souvenir sets and the vast majority come from BU rolls. Even though they were very common in production, because of the way most survived this type "d" is quite a bit scarcer than the type "c" in BU.  It might be a big winner in the longer term.[/QUOTE]