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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 1599938, member: 112&quot;]Boy you really don&#039;t understand anything do ya ? No Paul, I was not questioning your research. Which is why I said 2 things, I know it is not your fault, and that the reported numbers are all over the map, depending on which article or book you read. If you have 4 different credible sources and they all report different numbers - which one are you supposed to believe ?</p><p><br /></p><p>And no, I most definitely did not say that all Saints were turned into the govt. You need to actually read what I say. When I made that comment you had brought up &quot;mint sealed bags&quot; as being the source for MS Saints.. And I said that the vast majority of &quot;mint sealed bags&quot; were turned into the govt. And the reason I said that is because the vast majority of &quot;mint sealed bags&quot; were all held in banks. And the banks, most definitely turned in all of their gold.</p><p><br /></p><p>And since the bags of coins of the Wells Fargo hoard were all opened in the 1970&#039;s, they can&#039;t be said to have come from &quot;mint sealed bags&quot; 30 years later now can they ? And none of us has any idea of what happened to those coins or even where they came from during the 50 years prior to the 1970&#039;s. The coins definitely weren&#039;t stored in a bank all that time.</p><p><br /></p><p>Just how many people do you think there were Paul that could even afford a &quot;bag&quot; of Saints ? Each bag contained $1000, a lot of money back in those days. And of course a bag of Saints was only 50 coins. So a bag here and there doesn&#039;t really amount to all that many coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>As to your question of light wear, let&#039;s not forget that on coins graded by PCGS that excuse that light wear that is supposedly roll friction is thrown out the window with coins graded 68 or above. No light wear at all, of any kind, is permitted on those coins. It&#039;s kind of like they turn a switch off and on - light wear is acceptable on these MS coins, but not acceptable on those MS coins. That makes a lot of sense now doesn&#039;t it <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie11" alt=":rolleyes:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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