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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cladking, post: 3278497, member: 68&quot;]The services routinely grade poorly struck specimens from worn out dies as &quot;Gem&quot;.&nbsp;&nbsp; There might not be a single true &quot;Gem&quot; &#039;82-P and I&#039;d be surprised if there are even 20 for the &#039;83-P.&nbsp;&nbsp; I&#039;m guessing the &#039;83-P is more common in Gem because I&#039;ve seen so many that are well struck from good dies in circulation and in rolls and sets.&nbsp; The trick with this date is to find coins that aren&#039;t badly marked.&nbsp; About 5% of &#039;83-P dies made good coins for the first (up to) 50,000 strikes but only about 2% of &#039;82-P dies did.&nbsp; This is a lot&nbsp; of coins but take it from somebody who spent a lot of time trying to intercept them before they got into circulation: It was like looking for a needle in a haystack.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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